Recent content by Amanda Briggs

What tipped this project off was a mention of "a PTS study" in Amy Cuddy's book Presence. Cuddy has gained international fame for a TED talk of hers and she researches at Harvard and wrote this book. Within it, she mentioned a study where yoga and breathing techniques produced better results...

Hello there, Thanks for your feedback. I am studying Communications at the Masters level and this is for an epistemology project. My query was an informal request, I wanted to gauge how these treatments were regarded in the PTS community. If this is too much for this forum I can certainly...

I will add this to my list to look into, thanks for passing on!

Both your replies are exactly what I'm looking for, I feel some of this is being reported as "mind blowing and life changing results" when presented in books, blogs and media meant to be consumed by the every day person. There are some other opinions I've observed in this thread, so I am very...

A big thank you for your very detailed reply! I'm going to take some time to go through it and respond once I have some solid follow up.

I would love to give back to this community, the responses have been amazing, I am very thankful for the replies. Unfortunately, I am studying medical communications and am investigating how medical reports can be interpreted (and how that can harm the community it was meant to represent) so I...

The SKY yoga study reported it addressed both Vietnam Veterans and PTS from abuse situations, and reported the results were similar for both areas.

I agree, but I feel what is being communicated, at least in recent studies and literature for the common reader, is that this SKY yoga and breathing techniques have some sort of magical cure-all effect. The studies, when broken down, give more detail, but my concern is what is being advertised...

Thanks for your feedback! From the items I've come across (and I haven't even scratched the surface yet) there are researchers that are making broad statements that I understood as "SKY yoga worked better in the long term for PTS patients than did psychotherapy". Amy Cuddy's book is written...

Excellent point, I believe that there are "different strokes for different folks" so maybe yogic breathing wouldn't be as helpful for some as traditional therapies and vice versa.

Really appreciate your feedback - thank you!

Thank you for your feedback! I saw a few studies reference Sudarshan kriya yoga, but a few other "flavors" have popped up as well. Hoping to gain more insight as I go.

Thanks for your reply! Indeed, breathing and recommendations for exercise aren't exactly new, but the trend, at least in current literature being touted (ie: Amy Cuddy's "Presence") seems to point that these basic actions produce better results than more traditional methods like a group talk on...

Absolutely, I wanted to get a sense of what people in this forum feel about the current offerings in treatment, the more traditional versus alternative. The studies I came across seemed to point that alternative methods are producing better results. In one case study, traditional therapy...

Hello members, I am working on an epistemological project and wanted to get the opinions of those living with PTS on a few (relatively) new forms of therapy that are showing results, but are not traditional psychotherapy. There have been a few studies published in various medical magazines...