'PTSD Nation' - Dr John Omaha Interviewed on Freedomain Radio

Podcast: http://www.fdrurl.com/omaha

Dr. Omaha, an innovator in the field of emotion regulation, created Affect Centered Therapy. He has trained hundreds of therapists in ACT and AMST throughout the United States, in Australia, and in Europe. Dr. Omaha conducts outcome research on ACT and AMST through the Institute for Affect Centered Therapy, a non-profit he established in Chico, in northern California.

article: http://www.truthout.org/ptsd-nation57797

http://www.johnomahaenterprises.com

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• ptsd
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• trauma
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• psychology
• child
• abuse

[kennyvii]

"PTSD nation" is an interesting idea but I can see it is also a very useful skeleton to hang any sever and limited perspective upon.

Hey, who has time to watch a 72 minute video?

[stefbot]

I linked the podcast if you'd like to just listen...

[landloper1986]

this was exactly what I found studying sociology. my humble opinion is that looking at a group of individualsm de group becomes a new individual, the bigger the group the younger it is. looking at a group like europe or a america, we find that the collective mind is no older than a child.

I think our collective mind is going through its adolescence stage, fighting loose from it parents(government) with all the issues that go with that.

just my opinion. let me know what professionals think

[iamacyborg]

@momentinpassing I did in fact read your entire post. I thought it was pointless and skirted the issue that I raised. Rather than addressing my argument you side-tracked with a bunch of asinine crap about living beings being the embodiment of dishonesty. WTF.

[momentinpassing]

@iamacyborg It doesn't matter if it's valid. It matters if it's useful. That's probably so counter to your thinking that you'll shut out the rest or stop reading, but absolute truth is useless to a living creature. We are forced to use bias. In fact as living things we are the embodiment of dishonesty. DNA is a living history written by winners. In life's feedback loops right is defined by what leads to successful reproduction, and only that. If thinking a nation has PTSD is useful, it's right.

[momentinpassing]

I re-enact traumatic events to work through alternate responses in a perhaps misguided attempt to both understand the event and to prevent being helpless in a similar situation in the future.

In that way re-enactment is a form of avoidance for me. Avoiding not the trauma or a reminder of trauma, but the effect of helplessness brought about by trauma should the re-enactment actually yield useful ideas as to how to behave in future.

However in practice it is mainly stressful, tiring, depressing.

[MrNoncombatant]

@military911search

It matters not. Let not those that would place a wedge within your heart keep you from the kingdome.

[MrNoncombatant]

@kennyvii

Best combined 72 minutes this day.

Thanks stefbot for your service.

[MsJustanotherhuman]

@unpopularchunk ...dude, how do I get this.

[LTBL88]

@iamacyborg That's not exactly a fair analogy. A "forest" can suffer a fire or a disease. You don't say "there's no such thing as a forest fire" just because forest is an abstract concept

[RenegadeTimes]

Having worked with the public for over 30 years I am certain many people are living a version of someone eles's life. They do not know who they are . Not really. Like chameleons they change with the wind, the popular view or any variety therein. One must possess emtional intelligence to know who or what they are. So many people lack it and therefore live an illusion. Playing pretend is just a way of life. Childhood plays a role but one has to want true answers to forge change.

[military911search]

@LibertaerUeberAlles Was Roosevelt an AshkeNAZI fake jew?