>> I hear a lot of PSAs on radio and TV for various organizations that are organized by veterans to help other veterans regain their emotional balance after coming back from a war. <<
A lot of people are trying to help. Some succeed more than others. I suspect that groups by and for veterans may have a higher success rate than civilian therapists; they know what they're talking about.
Terramagne has the Gentle Life communities that treat traumatic stress and other challenges with lifestyle changes. Not everyone wants to make big changes in their life choices, but for those who do, it works quite well.
>> I'm sure that cannabis is one of the best treatments for helping someone re-balance themselves (I have had a lot of experience with that particular one of Nature's gifts.) <<
Sooth.
>> Basically they all set out to give the veteran reassurance that he's not the only person suffering these things, but if we sit down and tell each other our stories, we wind up feeling less anxiety and confusion later on. <<
Normalization helps. However, PTSD is one of those problems where talking about it can make it a lot worse. Depends on whether a person finds that talking helps them file the memories correctly, or amounts to rumination. The widely recommended exposure therapy is especially high-risk, and needlessly brutal given the alternative of counterconditioning.
>> And things like cannabis (and drugs with similar actions, like peyote or even LSD) help a person analyze why they feel and behave in certain ways, and what can be done about that.<<
True. Cannabis especially, like chocolate, is good for generating mellowness. LSD and peyote are good for taking the frame off reality, which can help heal moral or soul injuries.
>> Although a good hypnotist can do it without giving the person any drugs.<<
Well yeah, that's hacking directly into the operating system. But you have to know how it works and what's broken before you can fix things, and not a lot of people know that much. It's a fantastic option if you can find a good hypnotherapist -- for anyone who's a good trance subject. There are three talents in trancework (trance induction, montoring, and entering trance) and not everyone is good at entering trance.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2023-08-03 04:40 am (UTC)A lot of people are trying to help. Some succeed more than others. I suspect that groups by and for veterans may have a higher success rate than civilian therapists; they know what they're talking about.
Terramagne has the Gentle Life communities that treat traumatic stress and other challenges with lifestyle changes. Not everyone wants to make big changes in their life choices, but for those who do, it works quite well.
>> I'm sure that cannabis is one of the best treatments for helping someone re-balance themselves (I have had a lot of experience with that particular one of Nature's gifts.) <<
Sooth.
>> Basically they all set out to give the veteran reassurance that he's not the only person suffering these things, but if we sit down and tell each other our stories, we wind up feeling less anxiety and confusion later on. <<
Normalization helps. However, PTSD is one of those problems where talking about it can make it a lot worse. Depends on whether a person finds that talking helps them file the memories correctly, or amounts to rumination. The widely recommended exposure therapy is especially high-risk, and needlessly brutal given the alternative of counterconditioning.
>> And things like cannabis (and drugs with similar actions, like peyote or even LSD) help a person analyze why they feel and behave in certain ways, and what can be done about that.<<
True. Cannabis especially, like chocolate, is good for generating mellowness. LSD and peyote are good for taking the frame off reality, which can help heal moral or soul injuries.
>> Although a good hypnotist can do it without giving the person any drugs.<<
Well yeah, that's hacking directly into the operating system. But you have to know how it works and what's broken before you can fix things, and not a lot of people know that much. It's a fantastic option if you can find a good hypnotherapist -- for anyone who's a good trance subject. There are three talents in trancework (trance induction, montoring, and entering trance) and not everyone is good at entering trance.