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19-07-2007, 07:53 AM
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I just answered no. Being "forced" is a far cry from willing. Willing therapy is a two way street where the client/patient works hard with the information they are given. Being forced means the therapist is simply giving them information and attempting to manipulate the client/patient into doing the work. Being forced to do anything never has the results a willing participant has.
Pretty simple in my book.
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20-12-2007, 11:46 AM
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In the U.S., soldiers are asking for help and not getting it.
It doesn't make any sense for the military to force people into traumatizing situations and then force them into counseling that might not be effective it were entered voluntarily. The military has a long history of treating people like lab rats.
Furthermore, there are nations full of traumatized people who are not being offered help at all.
Doesn't forcing people into counseling place the onus on the victim to survive, instead of questioning the forces that are causing the trauma? |
20-12-2007, 09:46 PM
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After my assault the college called me into the deans office and there was a (male) psychologist, I got so agro. I refused. I was so not ready to talk. They really tried to force it so they could follow the procedure in their books. Ironically though, if someone had followed up with me in a month or so, I may have been more willing then.
So I voted no. |
21-12-2007, 01:25 PM
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"Agro"? Haven't heard this one before.
Good for you for standing up for yourself.
I really don't how coercion can help. If they are forcing you, they aren't very persuasive. Does someone who has been victimized really need to be denied control over their lives to get better? When does that end?
It offends me when a psychiatrist tells me on the first visit that I have if I don't commit to years of therapy with them right then, that I don't want to get better. Is it a sign of mental health to make a commitment to a stranger who hasn't even begun to demonstrate that they have the ability to help you? |
30-12-2007, 11:23 PM
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PTSD "is" a trauma and You cant stop a trauma from happening. |
08-01-2008, 09:56 AM
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I was forced into therapy as a kid but had no family support to assist me and that might have made it easier or more effective at the time. I think that plays a big part...how supported you are. You also need to be ready...I was not so my answer is no. |
18-01-2008, 06:31 AM
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the right counseling can help many people avoid developing PTSD, but if forced the person may not respond, and there is some evidence, that suggests things like clinical debriefing can increase the odds of getting PTSD. Each person is very unique on how a trauma will effect them, immediate intervention, does not help everyone. so I voted NO |
03-02-2008, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by anthony  This poll is designed to gain feedback on whether those with PTSD, spouses off and family members, believe whether or not the persons PTSD could have been prevented if immediate counselling, and ongoing counselling was sort after the traumatic event. | anthony,
I think advance preparation for the trauma would have much greater potential for reducing PTSD, than after trauma treatment.
Just as some are able not to be nearly so deeply traumatized by the same events that so horrendously affect others, training can and should be used to locate the more sensitive ones so they can become desensitized (perhaps through simulations) so they're much better able to handle high trauma settings such as when people are sent off to a war zone (or, facing some other setting where severe trauma's encountered).
The military's 'basic training' includes physical training plus some skills, along with obeying orders within the command structure, but what's needed imo is the extra step, of participants being prepared emotionally for all likely and not so likely outcomes.
Don
Last edited by Don; 03-02-2008 at 11:36 AM.
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03-02-2008, 11:42 AM
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I absolutely concur with that statement Don.... the military do need this, though they don't do it because the military want soldiers with PTSD on the battlefield as they produce higher aggression, they function longer at more vigilant speeds, they tolerate greater pain thresholds. Shame IMHO.... I agree with you whole heartedly mate, they should prepare at an emotional level also. |
03-02-2008, 12:11 PM
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