Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 16, 2022

I doubt that anyone is “cured” of PTSD. They just learn to deal with it on a day-to-day basis.

BTW, does anyone else agree that BD looks SO much better without those d@mned helmets??

Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) is a novel treatment that seeks to alter key aspects of the target memory (e.g., color, clarity, speed, distance, perspective) to make it less impactful, and reduce nightmares, flashbacks, and other features of PTSD.

Have to give Trudeau credit. He has always supported our troops with such strips.

It’s the Democrat way!

Even if it’s not a silver bullet, give it a shot. The worst that can happen is that nothing happens.

I’m all for things that work but unfortunately there are fads in psychotherapy whose success turn out to be more related to the charisma of the original therapist than anything that can be taught to other therapists. My second wife was a psychotherapist and I saw several of these fad treatments for “the disorder” come and go.

@Sun You have to be an automated troll. No human with a real thinking brain could come up with such a ridiculous statement made up of little more than trigger buzz words.

For about a month now the Tulsa World Sunday paper comics have included Doonesbury.(OK is one of the reddest states)but not any of the RW so called political cartoons.

Any links to information on “reconsolidation”? Everything I see relates to memory loss in the elderly.

I don’t think there’s any cure, but reframing and psychological compensation can keep you alive.

The entire Ametican population suffers from trauma and PTSD. We need social counseling.

Best thing to do for PTSD is to keep busy. Granted sometimes easier said than done, but it helps.

It’s why so many that returned from WWII got jobs and married. Finding something new and perhaps even mundane, helped put the war behind. There is no way to forget, but being busy helps. Works for PTSD you get from other events as well.

It’s also why when you retire you have things to keep you busy. Sadly, there are too many war vets, and others that suffer from PTSD from other events in their lives, that retire and find the old memories finding their way back to the surface if they don’t have enough to do. Lose the anger, keep happy, keep busy. Of course, PTSD or not, one thing for sure, if you stop moving, you start dying.