What if we induced a coma in PTSD patients and woke them up pretending it was a simulation?

[Pretermit]

Would it remove the trauma? It's like if somebody pretends to be a serial killer and pranks their friends, but then reveals the ketchup and manequins, does it make the traumatic experience dissipate?

What do you guys think? All morals set aside of course.

[kiloy]

[QUOTE=Pretermit;47882527]Would it remove the trauma? It's like if somebody pretends to be a serial killer and pranks their friends, but then reveals the ketchup and manequins, does it make the traumatic experience dissipate?

What do you guys think? All morals set aside of course.[/QUOTE]

There could be some problems you can't quite explain such as if they are missing limbs or a close friend is missing.

[Rhenae]

That would probably make it worse, especially considering PTSD can cause paranoia and your literally trying to treat them by lieing to them.

[Mort Stroodle]

"It's okay Steve, you only [I]thought[/I] you were torturing all of those unarmed civilians in 'nam."

[Daniel Smith]

The next great psychologist right here folks

[OvB]

I feel like you'd make it worse. It's psychological trauma, not a mind trick.

[Loopoo]

it'd probably be a good idea to go ahead and induce a coma into the part of your brain that came up with this idea, man, cause it's terrible.

the person would still get flashbacks, but instead of helping them think "well shit, it was just a simulation", they'd be haunted by how realistic the flashbacks seem and it'd trip them out even more

[Coolkiddo]

Yeah, the guy will eventually get reminded about it and come to realize it was real sometime later anyway and the entire plan is totally foiled.

[SuperPlamz]

That's not how PTSD works at all. Jesus.

No, it wouldn't help. Do you also, by any chance, think that PTSD makes you automatically try to kill people after a certain amount of time?

[Pretermit]

Seems that, as kiloy mentioned, it would be sort of hard to explain physical changes as well as hide anyone from you who may 'trigger' flashbacks (lolo). Such a thing would boil down to isolating the intended patient, and would just be inefficient overal considering the damage and physical change has already been done.As Ov; said, odds are it would just make it worse.

Just wondering if lying would somehow become a therapy of sorts now. Can you lie to yourself and thusfix issues? The fake it till you make it statement comes into min. Not trying to be a pseudo intellectual, just curious as to what others (apart from loopoo, Daniel and SuperPlamz) have to say about it.

[SuperPlamz]

[QUOTE=Pretermit;47884550]
Just wondering if lying would somehow become a therapy of sorts now. Can you lie to yourself and thusfix issues? The fake it till you make it statement comes into min. it.[/QUOTE]

Read up on repressed memories. Lies generally make things far worse.

[Jimesu_Evil]

Don't some people get traumatised by dreams? I don't think it matters if they think it was real or not.

[Pretermit]

[QUOTE=Jimesu_Evil;47884817]Don't some people get traumatised by dreams? I don't think it matters if they think it was real or not.[/QUOTE]

True, but is it ever enough to get PTSD?

As for repressed dreams, those are repressed with the knowledge of them being repressed, are they not? If all liability and reality was figuratively thrown away by the patient in regards to his experience, would that not ease his anxiety? I am talking about 100% doubtless about it being a lie. If that was even possible (I am aware it is not).

Also thank you for joining the discussion Plamz :)