Charan Ranganath

And so that's one of the ways in which these traumatic experiences can hijack those survival circuits that we have.

Well, part of the vividness that we have when we recall a traumatic event, and this is true in PTSD and in people who don't have PTSD, but we're remembering something traumatic, is that you get this visceral response. And that's that kind of you get a reactivation of the stress response or the fight or flight response where your heart starts racing. You may be sweating or something like that.

Well, part of the vividness that we have when we recall a traumatic event, and this is true in PTSD and in people who don't have PTSD, but we're remembering something traumatic, is that you get this visceral response. And that's that kind of you get a reactivation of the stress response or the fight or flight response where your heart starts racing. You may be sweating or something like that.

Well, part of the vividness that we have when we recall a traumatic event, and this is true in PTSD and in people who don't have PTSD, but we're remembering something traumatic, is that you get this visceral response. And that's that kind of you get a reactivation of the stress response or the fight or flight response where your heart starts racing. You may be sweating or something like that.

And that actually gives us that feeling of vivid remembering, even though we're not getting the details of what happened often. It just makes us feel like we're remembering more. And I think one of the important things that we used to do when I was doing my clinical training was actually do cognitive behavioral therapy.

And that actually gives us that feeling of vivid remembering, even though we're not getting the details of what happened often. It just makes us feel like we're remembering more. And I think one of the important things that we used to do when I was doing my clinical training was actually do cognitive behavioral therapy.

And that actually gives us that feeling of vivid remembering, even though we're not getting the details of what happened often. It just makes us feel like we're remembering more. And I think one of the important things that we used to do when I was doing my clinical training was actually do cognitive behavioral therapy.

And the behavioral therapy was addressing this kind of more visceral response associated with the fear. But then there's the how you think about it part. And the thinking about it part is actually separate. And it involves getting people to not just not change the memory per se, but change how you interpret it and how you think about it.

And the behavioral therapy was addressing this kind of more visceral response associated with the fear. But then there's the how you think about it part. And the thinking about it part is actually separate. And it involves getting people to not just not change the memory per se, but change how you interpret it and how you think about it.

And the behavioral therapy was addressing this kind of more visceral response associated with the fear. But then there's the how you think about it part. And the thinking about it part is actually separate. And it involves getting people to not just not change the memory per se, but change how you interpret it and how you think about it.

In our group, we had both veterans of the Vietnam War, but also the Iraq Wars. And so I came into this group cold, thinking to myself, I'm a young psychology intern. I don't have any of these experiences. What am I going to do? And what I realized was I had this hugely important role to be a team member with them. It wasn't like they were my patients. We were working as a team where

In our group, we had both veterans of the Vietnam War, but also the Iraq Wars. And so I came into this group cold, thinking to myself, I'm a young psychology intern. I don't have any of these experiences. What am I going to do? And what I realized was I had this hugely important role to be a team member with them. It wasn't like they were my patients. We were working as a team where

In our group, we had both veterans of the Vietnam War, but also the Iraq Wars. And so I came into this group cold, thinking to myself, I'm a young psychology intern. I don't have any of these experiences. What am I going to do? And what I realized was I had this hugely important role to be a team member with them. It wasn't like they were my patients. We were working as a team where

One person would release this memory that they just hadn't shared before, and another person would release a memory. And next thing you know, I could see this shared narrative build up that was common across all these people. But because I wasn't in the thick of it, I could view it from a bird's eye view and give them a different perspective on it.

One person would release this memory that they just hadn't shared before, and another person would release a memory. And next thing you know, I could see this shared narrative build up that was common across all these people. But because I wasn't in the thick of it, I could view it from a bird's eye view and give them a different perspective on it.

One person would release this memory that they just hadn't shared before, and another person would release a memory. And next thing you know, I could see this shared narrative build up that was common across all these people. But because I wasn't in the thick of it, I could view it from a bird's eye view and give them a different perspective on it.

And as we would come to an agreement about the way to reinterpret this memory, those memories are being transformed little by little because the act of recalling them and sharing them changes it. So you tell me a memory and it's no longer your memory. It's our memory because of the work that we put into in terms of transforming it.

And as we would come to an agreement about the way to reinterpret this memory, those memories are being transformed little by little because the act of recalling them and sharing them changes it. So you tell me a memory and it's no longer your memory. It's our memory because of the work that we put into in terms of transforming it.

And as we would come to an agreement about the way to reinterpret this memory, those memories are being transformed little by little because the act of recalling them and sharing them changes it. So you tell me a memory and it's no longer your memory. It's our memory because of the work that we put into in terms of transforming it.

Well, I think that there's events that we experience that are objectively bad. But what do we take away from those experiences, right? Sometimes there are learning experiences where we would say, OK, I don't want to make that mistake again. There's something we can look at and learn from and take with us into the future. Sometimes there's things that are just bad things happen to people.