Depression: Healing Grief, Suicide, PTSD In Shortest Time

I believe the current popular 'Models' for PTSD, depression and suicide are not accurate, as they are not time efficient. n nAt this time, November 2008 the widely applied and acceptable therapies are not brief, and the disabilities go on for years, if not decades. If the symptoms were relieved or addressed in a brief time, that would show the model of depression is correct. n nContained here are over 20 years of my own experience and directed education. This education and experience is outside of the accepted current infrastructure. n nA time efficient outcome, as compared to present models and processes, is the goal of this document. The longer the disability exists the higher the possibility of suicide, loss of career or employment, loss of family or loss of resources becomes. n nAfter my Mother's Suicide and my own severe depression, and after interacting with many people who also had similar depression diagnosis, I have come to the following conclusions. After Mother's suicide I have come to understand this model, not just intellectually, but in actions, in personal experience. This basis is: working "backwards", the opposite direction, to relieve and improve the displayed behavior. This process may be more simply understood as the reversing of the process which creates the disability. n nDepression, PTSD, Grief are emotionally based; not chemically based. n nFear drives the creation and maintenance of the behaviors. n nWithout an event, the debilitated behavior would not become established. The event was such, created a high "focus of attention", precluding peripheral distractions from being noticed. The event is a pin point of focused attention. Participation in the event, with high attention, occurred with the emotions of Anger or Fear, this event becomes an 'anchor'. n nShould the event have occurred without anger or fear, of IF the event was a feeling of being ‘safe’, the debilitation could not have been created. n nHumanity participates and learns through associational learning. The anchor causes associational learning, without language. Anger and Fear is participated without language, even though we try to rely on language to communicate the concept of the experience. n nThis focus, with the emotion of anger or fear or both, may NOT necessarily be agreed to be sensitizing to another person who witnesses the same event. The event is called an Initial Sensitizing Event. n nFor some people, assigning words to communicate the situation may be difficult, even beyond their ability to form verbal communication. This is why when a therapist may say, "if you can't tell me, how can I help you?" n nThe debilitation is typically not displayed in the moment of the event, or even the day after. The debilitation becomes displayed over a process of associational learning, that is to associate similar emotions, to it. OR, more accurately; to associate the traumatic event to a more previous event of similar emotion. nnEmotional sorting of previous or later "unsafe" or fearful emotional thoughts over time creates the debilitation.nnThis emotional learning is in many instances where childhood experiences were established with fear, and the adult life experiences are sorted to those childhood mis-understanding, presented here and described as fear. n nThis continuance of the emotional sorting, and associating emotions of anger or fear BACK to the event, becomes an incremental skill, which actually creates the displayed behavior. Some would say skills are learned by choice, but the human predisposition appears to collect these emotions, where over time a skill level is seemingly created. n nFear in some way does not appear to be a chosen emotion. n nI call this process "wrapping an event with anger or fear". When the event is so deeply wrapped, the emotions are so available; it precludes the intellect from knowing what actually occurred. This wrapping is the creation of the 'repressed memory'. nnThe "Repressed Memory" is an old concept. Like most 'intangible concepts' such as electricity or gravity we don't know either what they are or how they get where they are percieved. nnTherefore, we talk around the intangible. This 'talking around' this subject is done by different professions, disciplines and cultures. Although they are "talking around" the same concept, many times they are perceived to be in disagreement, simply because it's an intangible concept. Doctors, Psychologists, Therapists and perhaps pastors sound to be in disagreement because they can't agree on the same language from different disciplines and backgrounds. From their differing education and acceptable language of that credential, disagreement is the only concept which is available to the listener of those conversations. n nThis talking around the "repressed memory concept" only occurs because the personal experience of their own 'un-wrapping' has not occurred. This is essentially ‘the chef not tasting his own cooking’. n nDue to this talking around the concept of 'repressed memory', the multiple disciplines seem to not understand, either how it’s created, how it’s maintained or the process in the resolution. It's unfortunate the cause of this is not understood, even by people who present themselves as being experts in their field. These individuals include drug company executives who promote drug based depression products.n nMost of this misunderstanding is fueled by movies and television. All, with a different perspective based on financial objective in their product.n nUnfortunately, many issues cause this perspective to be dismissed. Perhaps contempt created by credentials, desire for cash flow and other self-enrichment activities. Perhaps the refusal to participate, to explore the concept from a personal experience is a primary disconnect to accepting this perspective. nnAssociational learning, wrapping anger and fear to an event is an accurate description of how the disability, dysfunction, becomes established. Without the event, the dysfunction isn't created, without anger and fear 'the event' would be no different than the daily occurrence of rain or sunshine. n nThe associational learning, as experienced by or in the individual, created the debilitation is not in one single event, and the displayed behavior is typically not identified to one event. n nUsually PTSD and other behaviors are diagnosed as being a single issue. It's the viewing of the diagnosed disability, by a therapist or other person to be 'one issue'. Actually, the dysfunction is due to Multiple Compounded Emotional points of focus, or 'fixations'. n nThe not identifying PTSD depression and other DSM labels as being caused by multiple emotional fixations, the therapist or the patient are not aware that the resolution is thereby based in addressing each (compounded) fixation individually. It is this misunderstanding which has led to the concept that grief depression and other issues are ‘chemical imbalances’. n nIt is this deviation from popular concept which is the major difference in a timely performance; addressing these issues in a shorter time, more accurately and without drugs. n nThese fixations, points of focus, creating anchors, creating the repressed memory display the debilitated behavior. NOT ONE of the events are emotionally perceived as situations where the person "feels safe". n nThese emotions, rehearsed and reviewed, emotionalized before sleep cause these emotions to be further embedded in the psychology while sleeping. This continued process is similar to learning any skill, such as becoming a violinist or engineer. The practicing of a violin for hours before sleep, causes a focus of attention before slumber, and thereby causing the dreams to be held with concepts associated with playing the violin. n nThis is the process of emotional learning without utilizing language. When these emotions are embedded without language, it is not reasonable to believe any language based process projected toward the individual, will break the Multiple Compounded Emotional Fixations. n nThe process to 'reverse' this is, and must be, similar. The goal must, if this is to be time efficient, to address the multiple complex of fixations, as many as possible in an hour. With proficiency of that hour, then proceed hour by hour until the behavior changes. n nThe re-framing of the anger and fear, so the individual feels safe is NOT with language, but with emotions. In essentially every situation where the 'pin point' of attention is established, the person does NOT FEEL SAFE. n nIF this is to be time efficient, the individual must feel safe in the emotional re-frame so the continuance to "figure out" what happened in the emotional sense can become extinguished. The goal here is to cause the emotional breakthrough -of the wrappers of anger and fear so the individual feels safe in that thought/memory concept, in the shortest period of time. This process is through the Management and Administration of the Abreaction and Emotional re-framing, a high level of performance can be established. n nWithin FOUR MINUTES: n Focused attention unveils a hidden event, n Breaking of anger and fear can be released, and n Emotional re-frame is established. n n“Talk therapy” can go on for years. This is in contradiction to TIME being the objective to briefness. It is unfortunate that a licensed psychologist or therapist has a contradiction to this expedient healing process. IF this is not acknowledged as a component of the VALIDATION of this process, then a major component of WHY others do not practice or not SEEK to PRACTICE a time efficient process cannot be ignored. n nThe contradiction to this expedient healing is the ignoring of the process of focused attention. Focused attention occurs when the Initial Sensitizing Event is established. Just as in that moment of fear or even anger, that person is not noticing the cool breeze or the song of a sparrow. The focus of attention, the reversing of changing the Emotional Fixation must also come with the PRECLUDING of peripheral distractions. nnIn the early 21st century a typical therapy session is conducted in a professional office, with comfortable surrounding, reduced lighting, and somber colors, an environment which is managed to reduce distractions. This level of management to reduce distractions is not sufficient to create the level of focused attention to break the emotional wrappers.n nWhen peripheral distractions are totally eliminated, to the level required, the execution of the above described process of breaking and emotional reframing a single fixation in FOUR MINUTES is possible. n nAddressing further misunderstandings: The emotional fixation is created typically when someone holds their breath or reduces their respiration. This example of witnessing or experiencing a car accident, embeds fear when the gasp of inhaling a breath coincides with the event. The experience of a child with the "deer in the headlights" display, is not documented in biofeedback at the time of the event. The deep and slow breath, along with slow heart rate is the indication that focused attention has occurred. This breathing cycle is both in the creation in the initial capture of the emotions and in the process of the emotional reframe.n nIt's unfortunate that in the event, where anger and fear is the point of focus, we are not monitoring the biology of the individual when the debilitation is created. Biofeedback has been used in some therapies of “debriefing” of the debilitation, but to the best of my knowledge has not been used in further understanding of the state of psychology when the debilitation is formed. n nAnother marker of focused attention - in the therapy session is Rapid Eye Movement along with deep breath and slow heart rate. When this level of relaxation occurs, the depth of focus is substantial, beyond merely of the comfort of a typical therapists quiet office. This Rapid Eye Movement is similar to what is observed during sleep.n nWhen the breaking of the fixations occur, it appears as if it happens in a second, or a moment of time. Although it has taken time for you, the reader, to read this, as a practitioner of the management of the abreaction and emotional reframe, perhaps 5 breaks could have occurred even in this time this presentation was read. This is brought to your attention because this is the point; time. n nThis can be observed even without language. The seeing of only one emotional break may be very moving to the observer. The participant perceives this as merely passing through a thought, even if that thought was broken with tears. n nThe seeing of only one emotional break, by an observer is typically NOT ENOUGH to change the behavior, as it is multiple compounded fixations which have created the dysfunction. This is why the management of this process must be such to permit the individual to feel comfortable in the process. This must be applied so the individual wants to engage. Multiple resolutions can occur in an hour, the number is defined by many variables. When the expectation to perform perhaps ten emotional shifts is set, there may be fewer, or more. n nSetting of the stage for this process comes in a negotiation: n Do you like your bad feelings? n Do you want to keep them? n nThe negotiation leads to an outcome of agreement. That outcome is based on the expectation which the agreement establishes. Generally when the 1st question is posed, that individual is already in focused attention on the feelings which preclude the intellectual knowing. As those feelings begin to swell, the answers to the negotiation are not limited to those asked, but the leap to knowing, that in a therapeutic environment, that all of those feelings will be addressed. n nThis agreement is similar to becoming hungry before dinner time. Whether dinner is at 5 pm or 7 pm, the announcement of what is to occur at that time can set the digestion process to occur, not by food, but by the hands of the clock. n nShort of witnessing this process, short of experiencing this process, short of talking with someone who has experienced the process, the intellectual knowledge of how many emotional fixations can be broken in a short period of time, so the positive change in behavior may for most 'traditional therapists' is beyond their experience. n nJust as the expectation of the hands on the clock to signal that food will be served, this agreement and expectation can create grief to live when the anniversary date for that death to be noticed by the calender or the date on the newspaper. n nThe expectation to break the emotional fixation can be driven with this same mechanism. n nConvincing someone who disagrees with this message will not occur, not by this document or any other document. The convincing of someone this message is correct will only come from a more ‘senior authority’ causing this process to be adopted based on financially or by credentialing authority. Wide adoption of this process will NOT occur based on efficacy, or need of the client. Adoption of this process will not occur because of a lone voice, but because of a major shift in the highest infrastructure of licensing and educational institutions. n nThe person who refuses to be a witness of this process, whether it is a therapist or patient, may be acting out of their own fear. What is fearful to that individual? Perhaps this process may have high, wide and profound application. But of course, their fear is individual to them. For a Therapist, the fear could come from breaking from established and accepted billing process submittal. n nIt is also unfortunate that the sense of FAST is contradictory to good, or long term. With the breaking of the fixation and the emotional reframe, fast, accurate, long lasting and effective are included. n nFor brief intervention, consider a comparison of a virus cannot be treated as a bacteria. Essentially, this is where the misunderstanding and differences occurs, similar to applying Bactine to an HIV virus. The breaking of embedded fear cannot be facilitated by 'spraying' words of a psychological dictionary on a fear based experience, expecting to kill the growing emotional wrappers. n nThis must be viewed and experienced, and become understood beyond this document. The behavior change can be witnessed in a short time, perhaps in a few hours, over a few days. nnThis BRIEF concept is contradictory to current established therapy or depression concepts. The concept of self enrichment is also contradictory to brevity. n nWhen the practice of these techniques is applied, few concepts in this document are verbalized to the individual. This is not an intellectual conversation, but a conversation leading to the emotional break. The only aspect of this document which is actually transacted is: Do you like your bad feelings? Do you want to keep them? Do you want to let go of two or three? n nThe client has the ability to make this leap, without their thoughts being verbalized. n nFor those military environments where concern of a damaging psychological profile could be created, this process becomes more interactive. Without the evaluation or the possibility of a document created of the healing process. This is a brief therapy, without words, but with displayed positive change in a short time. n nTypically, the answer to the question "how many bad feelings would you like to let go of", when the emotions are rising, the answer is negotiated in this expectation; "I want to let go of ALL OF THEM." n nThis document addresses how and why I differ with currently established procedures and drug therapy for PTSD, depression and suicide. n nWe could cite historical instances as to why other industries historically did not change. This is no different. PTSD, et al, can be addressed in a shorter period of time. A positive behavior shift can be viewed within hours, perhaps in days. The historic invention of the Wright Brothers, should allow us to believe there is the possibility a specific breakthrough can occur, even bicycle mechanics building an airplane. My specific application of Emotional Reframing changes the emotions of fear to no longer be the impass for PTSD, Suicide, Grief and Depression.n nI am direct in my actions to cause these problems to become brief. I am available for the earliest opportunity to demonstrate and share. nnIn this presentation, I am direct. Are you as direct as possible, to make these debilitations to become brief?n nAs stated in the beginning of this document, I believe the current “MODEL” of depression, PTSD, Grief etc are incorrect. I hope this causes people to consider a different model. I have seen this process successful in 70+%. I would like to support a study; should statistically only achieve 25% this would be a significant benefit for many people, and for new generations. nnThe feeling of being safe can overwhelm fear and the behavior and physical manifestations in psychosomatic presentations such as fibromyalgia. n nThis document is written to simply present: creating a feeling of being SAFE in an event which continues to capture the individual from participating in today, in now. The safe feeling can change these displayed behaviors, and this can be accomplished in a short time.nnPaul Rieker n951-970-5641 nn