Emily Holmes on how to treat trauma
The Life Scientific
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Is There a Treatment for Suicidal Thoughts?
Mental imagry is just a way, again, of doing this mental time travel. That's why we have it. And i'm really interested in treatments that might be simpler one day. In the case of intrusive memories after a dramatic event, these hotspot moments, they're predominantly visual. They have a visual component. We can't do two things of the same type at once. Now, that could be play to an advantage here. What it means is that you couldn't hold one picture in your mind and do something else also requiring you to hold an image in mind,. yes? So we started to look at tasks so that some if it was a non visual task, you
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