Confronting Trauma
Andrew discusses the complex nature of trauma and its impact on the nervous system, emphasizing the importance of confronting traumatic experiences rather than avoiding them. He shares a personal story about overcoming fear through exposure therapy, illustrating that true healing often requires facing the very situations that induce anxiety. The conversation also critiques the effectiveness of trigger warnings, arguing that they may hinder recovery by preventing individuals from processing their emotions fully.In this clip
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If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through a trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
In the episode Why You Feel So Anxious All The Time - Dr Russell Kennedy | Modern Wisdom Podcast 563 and the clip Memory and Trauma, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right?