Addressing
PTSD through Emotional Reframing: Time Efficient
Researchers estimate that the societal
costs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression among returning
service members for two years after deployment range from about $6,000 to more
than $35,000 per case, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
Depending on whether the economic cost
and ramifications of suicide is included, the
Careers and
families are lost and lifetimes are ruined when patients are required to wait
30 days for a PTSD diagnosis. Why not start
therapy immediately so that these individuals can begin to live normally?
Abreaction Desensitization and Emotional
Reframing (ADER) is a performance-based program for addressing Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), Dysfunctional Grief, and Suicidal Behavior. The goal of
ADER is to create the feeling of being “safe” in the memory over the
emotionalized re-sorting of anger or fear to the event by accomplishing the
“reframing” of the event through a series of four, one-hour sessions.
Performance of the emotional reframe,
that is to achieve ten emotional breaks per hour, provides the change in
behavior in a positive way. The
“breaking” of ten emotional fixations in an hour is possible by being
brief, accurate, productive and caring.
The ADER process brings forgiveness to
the past, of not doing, or doing wrong, not saying or hearing, and/or saying
the inappropriate. The “Emotional Reframe” is to re-assign a new emotion to the past. The goal of is to see behavior
change in a most time-efficient manner.
For many of those who were on
anti-depressants before the program, these patients will find the
inappropriateness of applying drugs as a band-aid to the memory of a fearful
event. Emotional Reframing is different and speaks using words like JOY. Breaking Emotional Fixations speaks to the
living in the NOW over the past hurt.
We see the behavior of PTSD and Suicide
attempts being contradictory to joy, love, and productivity. But these can all
live together packaged in a re-creation of the past events. The emotional reframe speaks to entering the
past emotional memory and re-frames that memory so the feeling of joy can
become a new decision.
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This is a process
to change the emotionalized experience which has been embedded in the
subconscious, and interpreted as the behavior diagnosed as PTSD, etc.
1st hour: Education as to
what is expected in the program, i.e., relaxation, non-verbalizing while in
therapy and shift all emotions to become joyful. This presentation is required for the purpose
of setting expectations. This first session is not an intellectual, but rather
emotional session to create internal resources for a greater depth and more
complete therapy application in the next three hours. Session work is not
intellectual; it's emotionally-based.
2nd hour: relaxation and "Safe Child", a
redirection to the emotion of joy. This leads to the education of
self-embedding the Emotional Reframing process.
This "Safe Child" is the internal conversation, with both
words and the emotions, to create:
"I love you, I'll never
leave you, and You can depend on me."
This feeling is
embedded to overwrite the previous hurt, which was learned through emotional
disappointment, and carries with it the transition into sleep with an
emotionalized sense of being alone. This, in turn, changes the psychological
sorting process of emotional learning.
3rd hour: Applying
"Safe Child", leading to "freestyle" of "what's
available."
What's that bad feeling?
When was the
first time?
Are you inside or outside?
Are you with someone or are you alone?
These “open the
wrappers” of anger and fear, the specific event becomes known and is made to
become “safe” with the skills created from the prior session. Until this is
seen or experienced, this simple sentence is not to be minimized: "What's
Available?" Prior to this session,
the fog is complicated through hiding the specific facets which causes the
emotion of the fog to exist. What typically occurs from this single session is
the 'FOG' of compounded emotional fixations is removed, the individual can then
identify each individual 'bad feeling' and the specific circumstance associated
with it. The details can be unveiled, the feeling of
safe can then become applied.
The disintegration
of "fog" occurs from this session and empowers the individual to have
hope. This brings the clarity to know the specific facets of life's experiences
causing the emotional breakdown which are addressed through this process. The
individual understands, from their personal experience, the breakdowns are not
genetic or personality disorders. The
individual now understands a tool to act beyond language, beyond logic, in
order to facilitate emotional healing.
4th hour: Emotional
Reframing - "What's available" perspective redirection to the emotion
of joy. This is the opening of the 'repressed memory' to reprocess from a
perspective of the new emotional
resources developed, and to close the previous emotional impasse with the
application of the emotional security acquired from "Safe Child."
5th hour: Individual
"psychotherapy" - the only actual conversations with the therapist
where the client describes their issues. These are then addressed in relaxation
using Emotional Reframing of what comes out of therapy: redirection to the
emotion of joy. Safe Child concept, "You can depend on me," (as
speaking to self) will be projected into future outcomes to change the
emotional past from being the limiting actions thereby setting the expectation
that future will be different and better than the past.
These five hours are completed
in a week, and based on the availability of the client. The outcome is a happy and
productive life, and actions with the best outcomes for the longest life, while
giving and also receiving love.
This is not to say
every behavioral display is healed, but a significant progress has occurred.
Depending on the extent of debilitation, the individual may not seek
additional/alternative therapy or antidepressant due to this session process.
Once this process
has been engaged the individual may find:
Therapy to address
emotional fixations is comfortable.
Disclosure of
emotions through this has no connection to human language, and therefore cannot
be documented as a psychological diagnosis, will not follow as a service or
employment record.
Specific to an
emotional feeling, when an emotion arises it can be
accurately addressed in a short time.
The objective of ADER is time
efficiency, reduced cost and loss of time due to this direct application to
address embedded anger, fear and the associated behavior.
Paul Rieker
951-970-5641
1.
Rand Study: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG720/
2.
The
companion document: Brief Grief,
written by Dr. Roger Russell, former Chair of the Psychology Department of La
Verne University and Paul Rieker. This document speaks to time as being a major
point of focus in the need for healing: http://www.blessyourthoughts.com/ComplicatedGrief.doc
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