Dr. Don Wood explains PTSD as the nervous system stuck replaying past threats like violence or accidents. The subconscious treats old memories as present danger, triggering defensive responses. He says trauma techniques can resolve it rather than leaving it permanent.
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We're supposed to live in a constant state of peace. But if we experience violence, that's not normal. So any kind of traumatic event could be coming from physical violence, could even come from a car accident. And our mind is not okay with it because it doesn't want it to happen again. But in order to protect you from it happening again, it has to look at the information to review it to make sure that if we see it again, let's just say a military person, for. For example, military person is just walking around and somebody sets off fireworks. Are the fireworks a danger to the veteran? No. But what happens is as soon as they hear the fireworks, our brains are constantly searching our environment for threats. So what do the fireworks sound like? The bombs. So then it starts to look at the information about bombs that they experienced before, where they were hurt. And as soon as it starts pulling in the memory, when does it think the memory is happening? Now, because the subconscious operates in the present, so it looks at memory in real time, activate you into a nervous system response. To get you to do what? Run. So post traumatic stress is a response to old data that was threatening. It was the common belief that post traumatic stress was something that you're going to live with for the rest of your life. However, there's several different trauma techniques that work on post traumatic stress that are very effective. It's not something that's permanent that you have to live with. You actually can resolve it. If you want to resolve your ptsd, click the link in our bio.
