Possible Therapy

[ikop]

We will use the same devices that people with hearing problems use -hearing devices that you put it in your ears. Those devices will be programmed in a way that will produce unexpected fast noise - in order to produce a startling response. + there will be about 50 different noises like a white noise outburst, door slamming, dog barking, fast metallic noise etc. These noises will be random and will appear at a random time interval - so the patient will not know when a noise will appear. This way they can't get used to it. In addition, we will use stickers. up to 5 stickers in different places on the body - that will produce unexpected small shocks (un harmful) at random times, so the patient will not know when the shock will appear We will use special electric glasses that will show different pictures of snakes lions and other visual stimuli - and those will appear randomly without the chance for the person to know when they appear.

I believe, that after a year of 8-10 hours a day of this therapy the exaggerated startling response and abnormal fear responses to stimuli will be gone or 80% improved. It may take from 8 month to 1.5 years. The results should be normalizing the amygdala activity, the hyper-arousal and anxiety in crowds. It will take time, maybe 1.5 year of treatment but it should work. (If done professionally , with very good equipment)

 

[anonymous]

I'm confused, ikop. Is this a therapy protocol that you are going to be doing? Are you the patient or are you administering the therapy? Or is this some sort of research you are conducting? I'm unclear as to what you are trying to describe.

 

[ikop]

It is a theory that i though about .

 

[NarcSis]

So essentially your theory is to 'wear out' the startle response? Wish it were that easy, the theory disregards long term effects of intense stress on other body systems don't you think? What you seem to be shooting for is that apathetic state of the dog in the electrified box (forgive me the behaviorists name eludes me right now), no?

I'd thought the same at the start of this, I figured if I could just acclimatize my body to an adrenalin rush, say through thrill seeking behaviours, then perhaps I could exhaust the adrenalin centre. Thank God I never did it, I probably would've had a heart attack by now.

 

[ikop]

Something like this work on a condition called hyperacusis :

"Hyperacusis (also spelled Hyperacousis) is a health condition characterized by an over-sensitivity to certain frequency ranges of sound (a collapsed tolerance to usual environmental sound). A person with severe hyperacusis has difficulty tolerating everyday sounds, some of which may seem unpleasantly loud to that person but not to others"

"He most common treatment for hyperacusis is retraining therapy which uses broadband noise. Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT), a treatment originally used to treat tinnitus, uses broadband noise to treat hyperacusis. Pink noise can also be used to treat hyperacusis. By listening to broadband noise at soft levels for a disciplined period of time each day, patients can rebuild (i.e., re-establish) their tolerances to sound."

If this works with hyperacusis why something like that will not work with ptsd ?