A US Army sniper ordered to shoot a 12-year-old suffered eight years of intrusive memories, alcohol abuse, and violence before a therapist used a non-verbal technique to reprocess the trauma so he could discuss it without triggering his nervous system.
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I take that high definition memory. Get your mind to reprocess it into the same format as to what you ate for dinner last night.
Now you can talk about it. And it doesn't activate the nervous system. People are blown away when I take them through the process. The most dramatic one was a US army sniper who was ordered to shoot and kill a 12 year old. And for eight years he couldn't stop thinking about it and was drinking a lot, getting into fights, getting medicated constantly. And so when I sat down with him, he said, I can't talk about this again. He says, I got arrested last week at the VA because I started picking up tables and chairs and throwing them. And I said, well, here's the good news, I don't need you to talk about it. He said, well, what are we going to do? I said, we're going to fix it.