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PTSD, to me, centers on a traumatic experience,
which for most people is the absolute
worst experience that they can have.
People generally think of themselves as being
a good person, that the world is fair,
that the world is safe, and when a trauma happens,
it shatters these assumptions about
the person and the world.
And I think that the symptoms of PTSD
and the anxiety about this sort of thing
happening again, the avoidance of reminders
that can set off the anxiety, all these things
kind of tie into the traumatic experience,
and so PTSD is a continuation of that experience,
and I think the important thing with treatment,
especially with psychotherapy, is to create some sort of
understanding and resolution of these experiences,
to integrate them into the person's life
so that they can understand themselves
and their place in the world better.