Dr. William (Bill) Dodson

Boom, they're overwhelmed.

They're done for.

It's a really lucky 20 minutes is what I hear from my patients.

More typical is a couple of hours.

And usually what the person does is if they can, they find solitude somewhere.

I have people just go into the broom closet just to get out of people's sight and let it run its course.

For some people, it lasts until they go to sleep and they wake up the next morning and it's gone.

Some people, the last and the next day, I have had people that never came out.

I had one woman who was rejected on the day that she thought she was going to be married.

And when I saw her two years later, she was still in an RSD episode.

I mean, she had just suffered agony for two years.

Because, I mean, it's funny since where she had clear onset.

Stopped something, gradual over time, bam, it hits.

And with her, every time she'd think of what happened, she was back there.

Again, it's almost like a flashback in PTSD.

In fact, when it happened, I personally, from the outside, I can't tell the difference.

But again, you have to talk to the person.

I don't know what's going on, but you do.

Take that instant and expand it and tell me exactly how it happened.

And that's usually very clear.