Dr. Barry Bain
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And Ida, one of the questions I have is,
Once someone develops post-traumatic stress disorder and they have these neurocirculatory and hormonal responses, all of us live lives where we're constantly exposed to at least many stresses, but it can become cumulative.
has post-traumatic stress disorder, does the neurocirculatory and hormonal system like maladapt to a response?
In other words, that the post-traumatic stress sort of primes
their hormonal and neurocirculatory system to respond in a particular way.
And then that becomes that even with little stresses, they become overloaded because the body learns that response.
And so I'm just wondering if that's something that you've seen, sort of following people, because it's pretty scary to think that young women
um, you know, chronologically they're, you know, 18, you know, twenties, thirties, and yet physiologically they're, they're really showing up as being much older than that as a result of the stress response.
So I hope that, I hope that makes, I hope that makes sense.
I'm trying to go to a more positive side of this, just from the perspective of what we can do or what people can learn about resources for this.
It looks like in the research that one of the things that really reduces the likelihood of developing PTSD
is a personal resilience that people have, which is, you know, it's very individual.
But taking it a step further, and I don't know, Ida, if you get into this with your research, but with the measurements and the whole, again, back to the neurocirculatory and hormonal responses, have you tried or looked at different interventions that might help
either minimize or reduce that response.
I mean, what I'm thinking of is, you know, is meditation, you know, helpful, deep breathing exercises, you know, just things that are general stress reliever strategies.
But I wonder how that plays into the more serious and more significant types of responses like with PTSD.