On 9/16/21 10:30 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > 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.
I read that character/aspect as CBT possibly keeping him from being entirely genocidal/suicidal. > > -- rec -- > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:56 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <geprope...@gmail.com > <mailto: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> > > <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 > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > archives: > 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > <https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/> > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/> > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > 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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