There's a PTSD character in "Ministry for the Future" who is the sole survivor of a mass climate fatality. He doesn't have much success using CBT to tame his triggers.
-- rec -- On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:56 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for linking the trigger warning article. There's only 1 thing in > there I can't abide: > > "At the college level, we don't believe the Holocaust, slavery, genocide, > and other harrowing topics should come in two different versions: 'regular' > and 'lite.'" > > Every intellectualized treatment of fundamentally *somatic* things is the > 'lite' version of it. Book learnin' is all 'lite' versions. This is made > obvious by those ASPCA TV commercials that show clip after clip of abused > and neglected animals, with some soft, pleading voice begging for you to > send them money. > > We can go round and round with the behaviorists about how there is no such > thing as the internal mind and whatnot. But the value of being *slowly* > exposed to atrocity, starting with intellectualized 'lite' versions, is > obvious. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), where you are given some > teachable skills to manage catastrophizing and such, exploits the > relationship between the 'lite' and the 'heavy' versions of any givenn > subject. It works, at least temporarily, for both healthy people and those > with PTSD. > > I think the techniques of CBT should be taught early, like maybe 5th grade. > > On 9/16/21 6:09 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > > They also incidentally brought up recent research on trigger warnings, a > crowd sourced clinical intervention for PTSD dating to the 1970's and a > long time tough-guy bug-a-boo. > > > > > https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work > < > https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work > > > > > -- > "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." > ☤>$ uǝlƃ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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