PTSD – A Way Out.com A mindful way to heal

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Undefeated Mind:
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“Acceptance and commitment therapy proposes that by fully surrendering to pain, the sufferer can paradoxically prevent himself from being defeated by it.
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Such acceptance, his therapist had said, while having little power to decrease his pain, might have great power to decrease his suffering.
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For one thing, accepting his pain might enable him to stop making futile efforts to avoid it and perhaps to start doing things he wanted, like going back to work.
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Also, she suggested, clinging to the possibility that he might still avoid his pain could also be engendering fear—fear that he might not avoid his pain—which could actually be intensifying the unpleasantness of his pain”.
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This works for trauma fears also.
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