Understanding PTSD Treatment
Scott Small discusses the importance of social support in mitigating emotional memories related to PTSD. Exposure therapy is explained as a way to rewire emotional connections to traumatic events, highlighting the necessity of normal forgetting mechanisms in healing.In this clip
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The Surprising Benefits of Forgetting
Related Questions
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through a trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right?