Dr. Michael Kilgard
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When I'm living in an abusive home and just random stuff happens, there's no agency.
There's no control.
It's just random.
That is what is most damaging to people, their neurons and their psyches.
So here we're having a similar situation, whether it's post-traumatic stress disorder, which is not tinnitus, right?
They're totally different things.
But there's a similarity.
There's a commonality to them.
that your thing that you think is making you better is making you worse.
And there are many ways.
We call this the prevent defense in football.
I'm from Texas, so we play a lot of that.
We're ahead of the game.
Let's change everything.
Wait a minute.
Bad idea.
Let's just keep playing the game that was working.
Oftentimes teams will lose because they'll change their strategy.
Here, if you've got pain in your finger, we'll now switch to analogy to chronic pain, and I'll get back to your question about pain.
exactly how we're treating it, what the treatment is.