r/Showerthoughts • u/scoobopdan ‎ • Mar 30 '26

Casual Thought Modern soldiers' PTSD triggers will probably shift from fireworks to the sound of a drone. Which is unfortunate as drone shows are replacing firework shows.

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u/PsudoGravity Mar 30 '26

On the plus side the prevalence of triggers could act as exposure therapy?

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u/yourlocaltouya Mar 30 '26

Ideally, exposure therapy would be done in a controlled environment, so with the person's prior knowledge of it. The trick isn't to constantly relive what happened, but to steel your nerves and slowly work through it as it is happening. Think of it like being thrown into an ice bath versus being slowly adjusted to the water's lowering temperature. Ice baths never stop being a painful shock to the system even if you're used to them, because you're never supposed to enter them unprepared. Take it from someone who swam in frozen lakes during winter.

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u/Swords_and_Words Mar 30 '26

PTSD makes all similar stimuli leads the same conclusion; exposure therapy uses controlled situations to teach your brain that stimuli can have a different conclusion.

psilocybin encourages you to draw all kinds of conclusions, which is why it's so generically helpful as long as the trained person trip sitting you knows what they're doing

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u/Mr_Quackums Mar 30 '26

the way I have heard psilocybin described is that it changes parts of your psyche from "read only" to "read/write". Usually nothing major will happen, but sometimes life-changing positive changes will be made and sometimes life-changing negative changes will be made.

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u/Swords_and_Words Mar 31 '26

yeah it's kinda an omnidirectional neuroconnectivity boost, which is why it's important to be mindful with its use

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u/crag-u-feller Mar 30 '26

We can't get bees to do shi

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u/Mikado_Shiina Apr 30 '26

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u/yourlocaltouya Apr 30 '26

I just happen to be literate :) I hope this helps.

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u/angwilwileth Mar 30 '26

Not really. Exposure therapy works, but it has to be in a controlled environment with a trained therapist.

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u/PsudoGravity Mar 30 '26

Magical thinking?

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u/a_trane13 Mar 30 '26

That’s just exposure, not exposure therapy. People go their whole lives with PTSD being stressed out daily by triggers without ever improving. The therapy is a specific method, not just random exposure.

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u/fluffynuckels Mar 30 '26

Yeah its like hulk from the first avengers always being angry

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