[ExI] virtual ptsd

[Henry Rivera]

Anything one perceives as life-threatening can become the source of ptsd or ptsd-like symptoms. Perception is reality. 

There are companies that sell virtual reality based therapy tools like Virtual Iraq where one can re-experience scenarios and become desensitized to them or play out different outcomes. Those systems include tactile surfaces to sit on that rumble, smells from battle, replica weapons, and the usual visual-audio VR. 
We have one of their older systems at my work for treating combat Vets: http://www.virtuallybetter.com/

> On Dec 26, 2018, at 1:53 PM, <spike at rainier66.com> <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>> ...Most of us here have had one of those dreams that is so clear and so
> detailed we remember that dream nearly the same as actual events, or even
> more clearly than actual events.  If so, it follows that one could get
> PTSD-like symptoms from an event which never occurred.
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> Many of us who have seen virtual reality software perhaps noticed how good
> they have become.  We might be able to modify old memories with a good
> simulation, perhaps overwrite a traumatic memory with a simulation of the
> event where nothing bad happened.  If I have clearer mental pictures of a
> bad outcome that didn't happen than the good outcome that did not, it seems
> possible to reverse that scenario.
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