And another one. For those who try to tell us “its all in your mind!”.
“Drop the ‘D’, because PTSD is not a disorder.” It’s what he learned from van der Kolk, who wrote The Body Keeps the Score. “Bessel says we’ve named this thing wrong. Post-traumatic stress is a brain adaptation. It’s not an imagined fear. If one of your feet was bitten off by a lion, you’re going to be on guard for lions,” explains Sumrok.
“Hypervigilance is not an imagined fear, if you’ve had one foot bitten off by a lion. It’s a real fear, and you’re going to be on the lookout for that lion. I tell my patients that they’ve had real trauma that’s not imagined. They’re not crazy.”
Thank you to Courage Coaching for reblogging the excellent post which the above quote comes from. Peter Levine also makes a powerful case for how Post Traumatic Stress should never have been labelled a ‘disorder’. In his book
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