And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast,

the Personal Development Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivated to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this this episode is titled, PTSD. And if you're ready,

we'll start the show. All right there, you beautiful people? How are you doing? Do you have a good

summer, a good August, catch up with some friends? Although that might be what

makes a good summer for one person, but for somebody else, that's hell. I'm a people person, I guess.

So the more chances to catch up with friends old and new, the better. I love it when you've not

seen someone for ages, an old friend, and you just sort of carry on as you were, as if no time has passed.

Love that, and your brain says, hello, this is familiar, it's safe, and everything just clicks into place.

That's amazing.

And being a psychotherapist, those sorts of processes fascinate me, that our brain can time travel by firing off neurons and create feelings that actually don't belong in the now, but help us to enjoy the now. I love it.

Although, as I'm sure you know, that process isn't always good. The same thing applies for things that are traumatic too.

So, slight trigger warning for today's episode, because I want to talk a little bit about post-traumatic stress disorder.

So if you're not ready to hear about things that might cause it, you might want to get ready with the skip 15 seconds button if your app does that,

just in case things get a bit pokey for you, but I'm not going to go into great detail, don't worry.

But I know not everyone who listens to these episodes has major issues.

You might just be interested in what makes people tick.

So if you've never had PTSD yourself, it can be hard to understand why a friend or

family member isn't moving on or getting over it, but it's a big thing. It's not like grieving

for a dead Fairground One petfish that soon becomes forgotten. Although grief can definitely create

PTSD and it's nasty.

PTSD is basically an effect upon the makeup of the brain

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