PTSD treatment and memory research

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Postby Roger Elliott » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:56 am

"In PTSD, individuals have specific memories with specific associations attached to them, which are negative, and thereby causing the disorder," he explains . "What we think behavioral and cognitive therapies do by having patients replay those memories and talk about them is that exact third memory stage. Over time, there may be the chance for these patients to redefine their memories and make them less traumatic."

Sounds similar to what happens with the Rewind Technique, or VK dissociation, except of course, as these techniques keep the subject relaxed, the 're-processing' can happen more quickly.

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Postby Jill Wootton » Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:16 pm

Seems to me Roger that lots of people who have PTSD are seeing counsellors for ages and not making any headway. All too often the continual revisiting of the 'bad' memories will just keep triggering the pattern of an adrenal response linked to certain images or thoughts.
Lots of PTSD goes undiagnosed, I saw a lady recently who has a high anxiety response when she remembers certain trips to the hopital where she underwent surgery, she has had lots of counselling and has talked about the events endlessly but it never dealt with the trauma.
Using the VK tecnique she can now think of these times without the huge emotional response that she had for years.
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