How to Turn Post-Traumatic Stress into Post-Traumatic Growth
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to victims of trauma, there tends to be a bell curve-shaped pattern of response. On one end of the spectrum are those that suffer severe post-traumatic stress, but on the other end are those that use the trauma as an opportunity for meaningful growth. In this episode, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen weigh in on this phenomenon and provide tips.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome back. to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome back. So we just finished talking about post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| 0:59.0 | Now we're going to talk about post-traumatic growth. |
| 1:02.0 | So I was... about post-traumatic growth. |
| 1:02.8 | So I gave five talks last week at the evolution of psychotherapy conference and while I was there |
| 1:10.5 | I attended a lot of other lectures and went to a lecture by Marty Selugman who is what most people think of as the father of positive psychology. |
| 1:21.0 | Interesting. |
| 1:22.0 | And he worked a lot with the military. |
| 1:26.4 | And he said, you have to think of PTSD on a bell-shaped curve. |
| 1:31.4 | That people toward one end, you know, maybe 10. curve that people people, |
| 1:33.0 | one end, you know, maybe 10% of people that experience |
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