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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I'm convinced that the vast majority of us are just canon-balling between traumatic event to traumatic event, with no real time to stop and process. So we inevitably freak out over something small, without realizing that the level of emotion we feel is a reflection of unresolved trauma, and not indicative of whatever the triggering event is. Sometimes, I see news stories about someone flipping out on a plane or in public, and I wonder what they're actually upset over, what happened to their past selves that so heavily contributed to their over-reaction today? I think you can only truly understand someone when you know their tragedies.

[–] darkstar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You should read the book "The Body Keeps the Score"

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That book should not be taken seriously. Very much pseudoscience.

[–] Pandemanium@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well, it had a bunch of the answers I'd been looking for all my life, since therapists won't ever just come out and tell you any of that.

Do you think all of psychology is pseudoscience, or just the stuff that hasn't made it into the DSM yet? Who are you to say that a therapist with years of research experience doesn't know what they're talking about?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not, but a quick search tells me the Canadian Journal of Psychology called it "arguably the most serious catastrophe to strike the mental health field since the lobotomy era" and I'll defer to an expert on this.

[–] Pandemanium@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

That's quite a claim. I'm sure the industry generally does not want to stop numbing people with black-box drugs. That's way easier than actually trying to heal people.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

If you have the time, I strongly recommend Carrie Poppy's talk on this subject. You may find it enlightening.

https://pca.st/episode/b8b7d820-0cbd-4902-8864-e6205097006d

Whether you do or not, I'm glad the book helped you! That's genuinely wonderful. It does, however, posit a lot of disproven theories that can be very harmful when taken seriously. The Satanic Panic is the best possible example of this.

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