DDay 1986: R'd, it was hard, hard work. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver

Reasons to ask questions

Lots of reasons to ask. Short list for why to ask a question:

- you want to know the answer

- you want to know if they know the answer

- you want to know if they will honestly answer

- you want to know if they will willingly answer

- you want them to know you are thinking of the question

- you want to watch their reaction when they hear the question

Others?

7 comments posted: Sunday, May 26th, 2024

Ptsd treatment: Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories

From an article in the Washington Post titled "The Best PTSD treatment you’ve never heard of "

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Established treatments such as Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure have limited capacity to achieve symptom remission and loss of diagnosis, require prolonged sessions, and have dropout rates of 50 percent and higher.
In contrast, RTM requires only three to four sessions, totaling about five hours, and involves no drugs or re-traumatization. Therapists can be trained in three days, and treatment can be conducted online. Best of all, the effects last. As one veteran put it, "Who knew that you could retrain your brain in a few hours, without medication, to remove yourself from the traumatic events that have been crushing you and making you wish you would just die?"

How does RTM work? Bourke explains it like this: "The technique is actually a neurological intervention that takes a traumatic memory and restructures it using several exercises like visualizing it as a black-and-white movie. The revised memory updates the original — reconsolidation" [\quote]

15 comments posted: Tuesday, July 11th, 2023