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ADAPTATION OR DISEASE
Having observed that 75 percent of severely wounded soldiers on the Italianfront did not request morphine, a surgeon by the name of Henry K. Beecherspeculated that “strong emotions can block pain.”6Were Beecher’s observations relevant to people with PTSD? Mark Green-berg, Roger Pitman, Scott Orr, and I decided to ask eight Vietnam combatveterans if they would…
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Part :2
Children who take them are also at risk of becoming morbidly obese anddeveloping diabetes. Meanwhile, drug overdoses involving a combination&psychiatric and pain medications continue to rise 30Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarey,publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental health problems.” Practtoners who explore treatments are typically marginalized as “alternative*Studies of nondrug…
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PART :3
difference: It gave PTSD patients a sense of perspective?’ and helped them togain considerable control over their impulses. Jeffrey Gray must have been rightWhen their serotonin levels rose, many of my patients became less reactive.
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Trauma and its Therapy
NUMBING Maybe the worst of Tor’s symptoms was that he fell emotionally numb fedesperately wanted to love his family but he just couldnt evoke any degFeelings for them. He felt emotionally distant from everybody, as thought,heart were frozen and he were living behind a glass wall. That numbesextended to himself as well. He could not…
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Trauma and its Therapy
TRAUMA AND THE LOSS OF SELFThe fast study I did at the VA started with systematically asking weren,What had happened to them in Vietnam I wanted to know what had pue?When over the brink, and why some had broken down as a result of tgexperiencewhile others had been able to go on with their lives.:…
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Trauma and its Effects
Regular life can be interrupted by a traumatic event. A goal for those trying to get past the stress of trauma is to return to a day-to-day schedule as soon as possible. Getting your groove back can help you re-establish a sense of normalcy and regain a sense of control over your life. Take the…
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Facing trauma
The vast increase in our knowledge about the basic process that underlie trauma has also opened up new possibilities to palliate or even reverse the damage. We can now develop methods and experience the utilize the brains own natural neuroplasticity to help survivors feel fully alive in the present and move on with their lives.…
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Facing trauma
system, an increase in stress hormone activity, and alterations in the systemthat filters relevant information from irrelevant. We now know that traumacompromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feel-ing of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals becomehypervigilant to threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in theirday-to-day lives. They also help…
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REDISCOVERY OF TRAUMA
10 THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE “I realized that if I take the pills andthe nightmares go away, he replied, “I will have abandoned my friends, andTheir deaths will have been in vain. I need to be a living memorial to myfriends who died in Vietnam.”I was stunned: Tom’s loyalty to the dead was keeping…
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