For reference I mean in a military aspect. Some things yes, for sure. But like getting shot at or mortared any of that jazz is moot. Therapist said it can cause it but like it didnt really bother many people i know.
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Psychologists justifying their paychecks. If you don’t have a problem they will do their utmost to convince you otherwise. Just went through some unconscious bias counseling. It started out with, you are biased and don’t even know it. So now that I made you aware of a problem you don’t know you had let me tell you all about it. By the time they are done with you they have you convinced that you are desperately ill and need years of counseling.
The “you” that you think of yourself as is typically just your concious self. The part that you hear thoughts as words and pictures and this part of your mind is great at rationalizing stuff. It can understand the things that took place and reason them out dealing with it and therfore you believe yourself to be fine. However, a lot of your mind is subconscious, non-frontal lobe stuff. It takes in and processes just as much input and data. It does this very differently so the results aren’t in the form words but rather feelings, impulses, satisfactions, disappointments and anxieties. It’s language is not one you can “talk” to and doesn’t use a linear, rational language and so it can be difficult to understand or even recognize as part of “you”. However, it is very much “you” and it can certainly be traumatized. And it needs to be just as healthy as the rest of “you” or you will be suffering. It came first. Your frontal lobe came later and is really just along for the ride.
Of the people who say it didn’t bother them…
* some really weren’t bothered, and they’re fine. Awesome.
* some really weren’t bothered *at the time*, but they still remember it and it can cause trouble later. Sometimes they get home, and then start having flashbacks, or nightmares. Or maybe they start drinking harder than they used to.
* and some actually *were* bothered right away, but they didn’t want to be the weak link so they just sucked it up and said they were fine.
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