the, there are a lot of details about the sensory
environment that are associated with that trauma, and then re-exposure to those
details can trigger the same emotional
reaction that the original trauma triggered.
That is essentially what happens with post-traumatic stress disorder.
What a person is triggered by seeing something that reminds them of the
initial trauma or hearing something or
smelling something, something in the sensory environment
reminds them of that emo, of that original trauma and now they get transported,
their body gets transported and once again they're in that same emotional place.
And that can be both that can be very debilitating.
So what can we do about that?
What we can do about that, what people are starting to
do about that, is to take the emotion out of it.
And so essentially what, if you recall from
our discussion of emotion, emotion has a brain
component and a body component, and it really
works best when those two are working together.
But let's take out the body component.
Let's give a person beta blockers.
Beta blockers are drugs that oppose the effects of the sympathetic nervous system.
This, the nervous, the part of our autonomic nervous
system that gets us very aroused and excited and
afraid and and, and gives us a lot of energy to fight or to flee or to react.