Dr. William (Bill) Dodson
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And you still see all the potential rejections and things like that going on that went on last week.
But now they bounce off without wounding you.
And that's tremendously true.
So then they can turn around and be the parent to their child that they wish they had when they were growing up.
It stops that generational pattern of destruction.
As I was talking about before, I think it's both.
That group of conditions in mental health that come from what happens to you, not how you're genetically predisposed, none of those things respond to medication.
They've never found a single medication that makes PTSD better.
Not a one.
They surged, believe me, they surged.
The military has been probably foremost in that because they have the most traumatized people.
And basically we have nothing.
One thing we know is giving benzodiazepines makes it worse, but a lot of things will make it worse.
Now, what works for the PTSD is trauma-informed psychotherapy, where somebody really gets what it's like to have had multiple repetitive traumas when you're a defenseless child, especially.
In an ideal world, that trauma-informed therapist would also be ADHD-informed as well.
Because people, I think the prevalence of PTSD in the general population is 6%, something like that.
And people with ADHD, depending on what study you read, somewhere between 50 and 70%.
And for women, very commonly, it's intimate partner violence that is so damaging.
And going back to what effect does this have on a couple.
So,