Bessel van der Kolk, MD on the Frontiers of Trauma Treatment

How and why do we detect danger?
Bessel van der Kolk discusses how science and culture come together in the study of Trauma and the emerging and effective treatments based in neuroscience.
Bessel van der Kolk discusses that we are all susceptible to trauma and how we can better approach this reality in our societies to support healthier outcomes for all.
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[@kimlec3592]

I know now for certain my Dad was traumatized by something or someone in his early years. He could never form close relationships except by anger, yelling, violence. He spent time fixing cars instead of being with his children. It wasn't his fault. He drank to handle the overwhelming anxiety & depression associated with his fragile feelings. Why hasn't there been more people helping to find out what helps people move out of these traumatized shut down frozen states? People are suffering and dying from suicide due to the exhaustion of trying to live with the horrendous anxiety and the depression it causes. Trauma from military service, also trauma from living in a situation where the parents are both traumatized, and are barely able to function as people, let alone parents. It seems Dr van der Kolk is one of the few making any real progress with people, using EMDR. The trauma thing is something most psychiatrists don't want to touch, due to not knowing how to really help someone with this situation. There are so many people i see every day who are barely able to care for themselves due to being diagnosed / labelled as schizophrenic or other label, when really they are traumatized people, struggling to cope with the myriad effects of the events in their and or their family lives.

[@GM-yb5yg]

Interesting read. Well, I think our western society is heavily monetized by ignorance and disconnection from healthy, authentic psychosocial relationships. That could be part of it. We also are very slow to change our ways and beliefs, values.Have you tried confronting your father, maybe suggesting group therapy or even like reading something? EMDR seems to be helpful for PTSD and other traumatic events, according to Van see Kolk, but not so much with developmental trauma, which seems to be the case with your father. Hopefully you are getting healed even if he isn't, right? I after fully understanding my own mother had been keeping me dysfunctional my entire life; because she was fucked up herself and needed a parentified child, I could let go of that and eventually start to embrace my pain, not being ashamed of feeling bad. Allowing myself to have had those negative experiences, and even life, has been a chronic boost and life change.

[@kimlec3592]

@@GM-yb5yg Healed...no. My Dad died last year. He developed dementia due to alchohol consumption. Life can be brutal & bloody. Healing depends on your circumstances. Parents are often overwhelmed. I never had kids due to the chaos of our family. I struggle as Dad was my last family. Some families do lasting damage to their children, as was done to them. You need to learn to drive to get a driver's licence. There are no learn to parent courses made law. But there should be.

[@kimlec3592]

@GM i also had to be the responsible one in the family. now i am exhausted just trying to survive.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

Bessel did not invent EMDR, MDMA, therapy, so there are many other people doing this work

[@ericablaschke3497]

I agree. I see this all the time. It’s like cancer if we cured cancer we would put people out on business doctors etc. look at big pharma they control everything unfortunately everything boils down to money or the love of money. The DSM is a bunch of nonsense. Trauma is the basis of all mental disorders., we have doctors who go to school. But the people who actually spend the time with the patients get this those who are educated do not get it

[@helenmcinerney1058]

I truly love and respect Dr Van Der Kolk,

[@robynhope219]

Indeed, the world's best!

[@richardlee7077]

CDC studies (ACEs) show nearly 7 in 10 suffered trauma. After Covid, it's nearly 10 in 10. The age of mass trauma.

[@Be1More]

Thank you. I wish that you would team up with Gabor Mate and teach people, including doctors and politicians.

[@fs7990]

Hear, hear

[@lioness7522]

…and Bruce Perry…..

[@maydavies888]

This commemt needs to go viral and touch both men directly.🙏🙏🙏

[@joanniemuskett3266]

Yes, surely we are 'a destructive species' because of trauma? as Gabor puts forward notably in the Myth of Normal..

[@winniethuo9736]

​Oh, there is another human dad called Bruce Perry. Well, I will add One from the East Jiddu Krishnamurti. He will discuss with you on the challenges of change. I believe this is the beginning of attempting to understand how we got here.How we have created disorder and instead of going back to the drawing board, we attempt to mend things which we do as a segmented group of people to our disadvantage. Those who tried to take us back to the drawing board have been seen as weak and not a representation of advancement. The question is, who gains by doing the same thing over and over again yet expecting a different outcome. The kids of today are our guardian tomorrow but we have not given them the right conditions to civilization. We have been unable not due to our own faults but we have brought them forth to a traumatic world without us knowing what victims we all are. Persons such as James Joyce, an Irish writer tried to show us how to dig deep and read between the lines in human set systems, in this case religion; that are derived from not sacred human minds and advocating for God in his book Ulysses. Leo Tolstoy a Russian writer in his book The Kingdom of God is in You. Men are pushing thru the idea that an oak tree seed has all it's glory inside it an all that is needed for it fruition is the right condition given freery by nature. We need to empower one another so our seeds can stand a chance to the expected fruition. All the best guys. I am gonna look at Bruce

[@lioness7522]

I agree - with B above - we need this so much in the UK - training for the NHS!

[@annorr11]

Gabor Matte did pioneering work in this exact phenomena and wrote a book about how the body remembers what happened.

[@ericablaschke3497]

Oh he is so right. I wish our mental health system was on the same page. He is right textbook and what people are taught in school is nonsense. Our mental health system is so backwards. But to be honest it is based on money. If we were to help people get better they do not need to be on medications and hospitals would be out of business. Big pharmaceutical companies dictate treatment. Sometimes the drugs makes the person appear crazier then they are

[@jamienovak4961]

THANK YOU, I have recently been diagnosed with CPTSD. Living entire life being the names given, from stupid to lazy, good for nothing waste of space - all because of lack of information on how trauma effects our bodies. Still hearing she always blames medical things for how she acts. Now I can say "Well yeah!!!" BTW got a 9 out of 10 on aces. I am so grateful I have people who understand me even if I never meet them, I am not alone anymore.

[@DS-rd9qn]

Check out Pete Walkers books on CPTSD

[@quinndepatten4442]

You are heard. You are seen. You are loved.

[@punyashloka4946]

Stay strong 💪

[@DoggyDoula]

Wow I wish I'd known this doctor was here,maybe he could get people to understand what my adopted son is going thru.

[@thomashassall96]

Hope you are both doing well 🙂

[@FergusScotchman]

You should study Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu -- it is the only time I ever felt like something was very therapeutic.

[@robynhope219]

"from the moment of our birth, our relationships are embodied in responsive faces, gestures, and touch"...ik i was not welcomed into the world...i was scolded and slapped for crying as a baby...it was all negative. You can imagine what that did to me.😢

[@Gilren1]

So, first thing to do is to end wars and train people the art of connecting instead of blowing up others.

[@maxx3002]

awww, he mentioned Angela, "Mutti", Merkel :)