SelfWork YGTG: The New FDA-Approved Treatment for PTSD Nightmares
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
There’s an exciting new product on the market – especially for anyone who has suffered with horrible PTSD-based nightmares. I should first tell you I have no relationship with the makers of this product. But since I've treated many patients with both PTSD and CPTSD, I know how exhausting and frightening these nightmares are. It’s a newly approved product by the FDA for just this use; however, it requires an Apple Watch. I’ve used hypnosis fairly effectively in the past for these kinds of traumatic nightmares – but there are many who don’t understand hypnosis and/or it doesn’t work completely or for a long enough period of time. The testimonials are meaningful, as the research was done with veterans of war and this is the first relief many of them have had from these intrusive and almost constant events.
Important Liinks:
Episode 206 What Dreams Are Made Of
Article announcing Nightware's FDA approval
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford and this is Self Works version of You Get the GIST or YG TG. |
| 0:14.0 | There's a huge and exciting new product on the market, |
| 0:17.1 | especially for anyone who has suffered |
| 0:18.7 | with horrible PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder-based nightmares. I should first tell you I have |
| 0:25.1 | no relationship with the makers of this product. I just heard about it in my Facebook |
| 0:29.6 | clothes group and I've gotten so excited about it. I have several patients with both post-traumatic stress disorder and what's called |
| 0:36.5 | CPTSD or complex post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| 0:41.0 | And I know how exhausting and frightening these nightmares are. |
| 0:44.0 | They're actually often almost like a cross between a nightmare and a flashback, |
| 0:48.0 | as you may actually feel yourself in this situation, even though you're asleep. |
| 0:52.0 | It's a newly approved product by the |
| 0:54.4 | FDA here in the United States for just this use and one thing it requires an |
| 0:59.9 | Apple watch as it uses its technology to make it work. |
| 1:04.0 | You know, I've used hypnosis fairly effectively in the past for these kinds of traumatic |
| 1:07.9 | nightmares, but there are many who don't want to do hypnosis don't understand it, |
| 1:12.3 | where sometimes it doesn't work completely or for a long enough period of time. |
| 1:16.0 | I've read some of the testimonials by veterans. They use veterans as their subjects for the study, |
| 1:22.0 | and they certainly say that this is the first |
| 1:24.1 | relief many of them have had from these intrusive and almost constant |
| 1:28.7 | nightmares. There are also meds out there that help such as Prasosin and clonopine, but those are meds and this is a med free treatment |
| 1:38.2 | technique. But I'm going to read a bit about this new product. It's called Nightwear to you. I think it |
| 1:44.2 | could very well be a breakthrough. Now I don't own an Apple watch so I don't know |
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