Inescapable shock: just having the ability to escape from a situation doesn't mean that you'll exercise your ability to do so. 'Rather than risk experimenting with new options they stay stuck in the fear they know.' () It's not enough to just talk through a traumatic event-the 'talking therapy' that had been so popular when Van Der Kolk was training-relearning needs to happen. You never know when you will be assaulted by them again and you have no way of telling when they will stop.' () 'I now saw that flashbacks could be even worse. This led, for the first time, a concerted effort to research it and attempts at treatment. PTSD was only recognised as a diagnosis in 1980, the combination of a number of symptoms that would present at the same time. Reorganises our perception of the world (flashback superimposition).Impacts our ability to have intimate relationships.This book concerns his exploration and discovery of the value of treatment with the third way. Up front, Van Der Kolk let us know that there are considered to three ways to treat someone with trauma:
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