Dr. Michael Scheeringa

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · The Body DOESN'T Keep The Score: Psychiatry's Biggest Lie | Dr. Michael Scheeringa, MD · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

The people who develop PTSD need to have their symptoms for at least a month by the criteria, and that's a pretty good thing based on research.

70% of people are resilient to trauma, and it's only about 20-30% that will develop PTSD and are vulnerable to trauma.

So the question is, what makes them vulnerable and

to trauma and it's those preexisting things probably that we can identify in their brains or their personalities or their physiology.

And that's probably just there because of genetics, you know, just the luck of the draw and the randomness of the way genetics works.

Most people are very resilient.

And if you think about it, that makes sense.

We've lived for millions of years or thousands of years, however you look at it as humans, gone through more stress and trauma than we probably did in modern civilization.

And our brains don't seem to have gotten turned into mush over all that time from worse trauma.

We're wired to handle adversity and trauma.

It goes back to that idea of it's how you do the study.

You have to look at people, their brains and their physiology before they went through trauma and then kind of wait for trauma to happen and then reexamine them.

That's the only way to know if it's the chicken or the egg.

You can imagine those are very hard studies to do, but they've done a bunch of them with things like firefighters, police recruits, soldiers getting deployed so they know who's going to go through these things.

So that's how we know the evidence.

And what you described earlier, there are tons of studies that would support the idea of the body keeps the score, but they're cross-sectional.

And in the book, the Van der Kolk write, we call that cherry picking.

You just pick the studies that fit with what you already believe, and it sounds convincing.

That PTSD is a real thing.

I mean, I think that was a great accomplishment of psychiatry when it was kind of officially created around 1980, based on, you know, when Vietnam War veterans were coming back.

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