Comments on: Vagus-informed Therapy Creates Conditions for A Person to Heal from Trauma

By: K

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:27:28 +0000

In reply to Ramon.

This was an article that finally gave me some hope.
When you tell a therapist that you can’t get something done because your brain literally freezes and goes blank and then they keep telling you that you just have to decide to do that thing, like its a choice or discipline… well you know they don’t actually understand the fundamental cause.
It is so difficult to find a therapist who truly knows how to treat trauma. I’m off to keep researching, thank you for the insights.

By: Ramon

Ramon — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 02:23:34 +0000

Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate your insights. I especially enjoyed reading about your insight on the impact CPTSD has on the self. Psychological fragmentation is crippling for someone’s identity, values, and self-validation.

Thank you again for your comments.

By: A. M. Fraher

A. M. Fraher — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 19:33:42 +0000

this is a good post yet it is our symbolic relationship with the real world’s of words, other signs and behaviour where the impact hits…
Sure getting a handle on the Vagus, like the Amygdala, fosters a sense of relief but only as a socially constructed idea…
I find, after some treatments, that it is the inherent shame based attitudinal practice from both professionals and lay people which also trigger me…
I proffer that Julia Kristeva’s work called The Powers of Horror remain equally and critically important…
The object/subject debate is far from finished if only really properly starting…
The developments in neuroscience must not be ignored but most be seen as an integrative discipline with quite specific origins in the work on proprioception in the 80s and emerging from the gaps between the nature of causal explanations per se and especially in Psychology and Psychiatry….
Reality is not neat, stable and ordered the institutional organisation of life is where order is gained…
There is no knowledge without a perspective from which it is gained and the context of this gain…
The absence of an integrated sense of self, as with cptsd, is a beginning of the need for science too to lessen its objective need for the reification of self-reflection…
The negation of self will otherwise become compounded by the act of helping itself…