Ok, I should add to this as I have since really hit the nail on the head so to speak with what I have done to myself in order to heal, thus try and get others to see for themselves, and apply uniquely upon themselves. I call it "abstract logic". Yes, very weird. Abstract: consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically, or Abstract: dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; "abstract reasoning" Logic: reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic", or Logic: a system of reasoning
My mind thinks both logically, and abstractly, in that whilst a known technique may exist, that doesn't mean I have to accept the theory that it was founded upon, because often most theories and studies are looking for conclusive answers began they even began, which means the results are tainted and all options have not fully been explored. For example, if you look at medication trials, doctors might pull in 500 sufferers of PTSD. They then subject that 500 to initial testing of certain criteria in which they are looking for. Tainted here first. They then exclude certain subjects for whatever reason they seem fit, basically, the people with PTSD that they don't want within their trial. They then take the remainder and subject them to further testing to find the top 100 that meet a criteria they have already determined to run the test. Tainted again to specifics.
As you can see, instead of randomly choosing 100 subjects to run the trial upon, the moment they go looking for specific characteristics within the subject, the outcome is being pre-determined, instead of being found or discovered. This is what 90%+ of physicians, therapists and so forth base their teaching and counselling techniques upon, theoretical models that have been constantly tainted to provide pre-determined results.
This means, we are learning what they want us to learn, not what actually could work for us, the patient, as an individual. Every person is an individual, and what works for one does not work for another, yet the moment you go looking for something and have a pre-determined outcome, you have stopped looking at the full scope of ideas, knowledge and learning.
In the military this was called "blinkers". Basically, a person has their blinkers on, which means their sight and concepts are narrow minded, not seeing the full picture. Now most people see things in this way, but its not working to help those who suffer PTSD. Why? Because PTSD is not just one illness, its a combination of illnesses rolled into one. This one illness, PTSD, is so powerful that it churns your internal emotional system into an unknown entity. You no longer can isolate exact emotions, exact feelings or thoughts, instead you are given one answer one minute, another the next, another 30 seconds later, all going into your brain and createing confusion.
Basically, PTSD is causing our internal emotional and neurological system into an abstract form of itself. (My theory based on individulasim).
Simply put, when PTSD is at play within us, trying to keep something within us stable long enough to put our finger upon the feeling / emotion / issue to resolve it is a huge chunk of the problem. Conventional therapy models to date cannot provide us information about ourselves, only solutions to problems that we know we have, ie. PTSD, Raped, MVA, Killed, etc etc. We know those problems exist already, we know we have PTSD, but what exactly is going on within us determines how we find the solution to the problem uniquely, as individuals. My favourite saying again, "what works for one, may not work for another" because we are all uniquely wired as such.
So abstract logic in essence, from the definitions above, is taking our knowns, our reasoning (logic), and combining that with our individualism, being our unknowns (without specific examples, practical purpose, defined conclusions - abstract), to find what works uniquely for each one of us.
Known models of therapy, CBT, EMDR, Light Therapy, etc etc... all worked of fundamentally flawed systems that use a known based structure to define a desired outcome. Now whilst this works for some people, it doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot in the overall purpose of the PTSD sufferer for the above mentioned reasons.
So the solution is to take our known reasoning models of education and experience, then combine that with our unknown individualism. How? A combination of mental imagery to discover ourselves, and then our individualism as such combined with known theories that have worked to a level of degree.
Now this can be done by a few people with nothing more than time and education, ie. the way in which I got to where I am today, though most do not think the majority of the time outside of known logic or reasoning. If you know the term, "to think outside the box" or "thinking outside the square", then this is what must be applied within ourselves in order to know how to uniquely help ourselves, as there is no one solution that blankets PTSD in order to heal. It took my way of thinking to discover this myself, however; I believe mental imagery can help people find their full emotional understanding much faster than having a specific type of thinking pattern with time itself to discover.
Yes, I most likely just confused a whole lot of people... but that is my unique thinking style. Very wired, very 360 degree visualization towards a given problem. |