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Would be great if it were that easy to treat. Unfortunately, PTSD is psychosomatic. It’s not just psychological, there is a neurological part to this that can’t be easily turned back off that’s why it’s very difficult to treat. Essentially in PTSD, the amygdala, that controls your fight/flight response, is not working properly. It’s like if you turned on a light, then broke the switch, so now it’s stuck in the on position. The amygdala is hypersensitive to the “trigger” that turned it on. It’s similar to people who suffer from severe phobias as well. It takes time to desensitize the amygdala again (for the neurological part) as well as process the psychological aspect.
okay so I have this idea for a new therapy thing. basically the idea is after an abusive relationship or a combat deployment or anything that might conceivably leave you with PTSD and a loss of ability to reasonably gauge how bad the shit that happened to you actually was, you sit there with a mental health professional for like, a solid 30 to 60 minutes, you tell them short vignettes of your experiences and they respond ONLY by rating how fucked up each one was on a scale from 1 to 10 and then you move on. the objective isn't to reflect deeply on specific experiences but to get a sustained series of reassurances that what you went through was, in fact, That Bad and gradually rebuild your trust in your own present and future ability to judge when what you're going through isn't okay.
currently calling it Rapid Fire Affirmation and Recalibration Therapy (RAP-FART). working title, open to feedback.
This elderly woman was one of the leaders of demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when she was a student at Columbia University. Today, 56 years later, she returns to the same place and says, "Palestine must be free."