you know....i honestly dont remember 9/11. a very dear friend and sometimes lover had passed away the day before, and she was all i could concentrate on, even though it ended up that i *did* know (online) two people who died in the towers.
i agree with the article that watching the things on tv couldnt cause PTSD in themselves, but they *could* have triggered other memories of trauma for some people. i know it didnt help my own fear of flying any at all.
This article is really misleading. It seems much more about the effect of therapy of people who didn't want it. I mean, if you force people to talk about painful memories then it's obviously going to be unhelpful and even harmful.
About TV, I've never experienced 9/11, but I did experience being 300 meters away from the bombs that went off in Oslo and seeing the pictures of the place I walk every day to school as completely broken and knowing that had it happened a day earlier I would have been dead? Fuck, yeah that triggered my PTSD. One thing is hearing it and seeing parts of it from a distance, another was actually seeing the blood, gore and what could have happened had I decided to walk that road that day. TV *can* be extremely damaging to your mind if you're already struggling.
Talk therapy has never worked for me, so I found the article refreshing in it's honesty. In that "one size fits all" model of therapy in reality dosen't work. Given how popular that mode of therapy seems to be, I had to go through two therapists before I found one that didn't rely on it alone.
As for the TV watching=trips ptsd. Nope, mine has very specific triggers and won't go off from just any violent program/movie/news event.
Though for what it's worth, I'm male and I know that ptsd in men crops up differently than in women.
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i agree with the article that watching the things on tv couldnt cause PTSD in themselves, but they *could* have triggered other memories of trauma for some people. i know it didnt help my own fear of flying any at all.
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To this day, I have nightmares about witnessing airplane crashes. I'm never actually on the crashing plane; I'm always a helpless bystander/witness.
I never had those kind of nightmares before 9/11.
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About TV, I've never experienced 9/11, but I did experience being 300 meters away from the bombs that went off in Oslo and seeing the pictures of the place I walk every day to school as completely broken and knowing that had it happened a day earlier I would have been dead? Fuck, yeah that triggered my PTSD. One thing is hearing it and seeing parts of it from a distance, another was actually seeing the blood, gore and what could have happened had I decided to walk that road that day. TV *can* be extremely damaging to your mind if you're already struggling.
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As for the TV watching=trips ptsd. Nope, mine has very specific triggers and won't go off from just any violent program/movie/news event.
Though for what it's worth, I'm male and I know that ptsd in men crops up differently than in women.
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But the main psychological benefits were felt by the psychologists rather than the patients, said the study
And why doesn't this surprise me?
*is cynical*
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