Dr. Paul Conti

Now that you're in this state, let's, hey, let's make, hey, well, the sun is shining, right?

You're in a state where we can look at things that are traumatic, right?

We can approach them from a de novo perspective, and we're coming to understand that they have immense potential to be helpful to us.

But I

think and hope that that only also increases our respect for those modalities and what negative can happen if we're not respectful.

We just have to be very careful what we're saying and what we're communicating.

And I think this doesn't mean, because there's a sort of phenomenon now where people are trying to control language, I think, too much.

You can't say anything that someone else might find hurtful.

You have to refer...

to people in ways they choose to be referred to, even if those are ways that others don't understand or ways they themselves have decided or ways that might be psychologically or clinically unhelpful.

So I think the over-control of language is not good.

But I think the specificity of language of what are we trying to say?

How are we defining it?

Or even the word trauma, right?

We're talking about trauma.

So we want to define what that means, right?

It doesn't just mean like, oh, anything kind of negative, right?

Because then that dilutes it down to meaning nothing, right?

It also doesn't just mean,

you know, injury and combat, right?