Treating PTSD With Virtual Reality Therapy: A Way to Heal Trauma

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1. In my opinion, VR is akin to re-experiencing combat all over again, seems to me it would only confuse the traumatized brain without the smell/s touch, even the hearing such memory replay.

   Another words, actual incident/s being mixed with the VR sessions.

   I know this from actual experience, suffering PTSD/depression for many many years, getting involved with the Battlefield 3 VR game, which involves very high detailed graphics to include realistic chaos of battle to include helicopters armor so on. My dream state became a horrible mixture of real to unreal experiences.

   Other issues soon began. Unable to calm… I'd lie in bed for hours as if under some sort of unknown threat knowing there is NONE.

   In the beginning it merely fullfilled an inner desire to win, to retaliate at what in real gun fights cannot seem to achieve. Killing without being killed, killing without your buddies screaming… unintended casualties. Having to write after action/incident reports.

   Unlimited lives getting impatient awaiting the respawn so as to get back into thE action.

   Fellas, the game makes PTSD WORSE! Not better! Those close to me were trying everything they could muster to convince me the first person shooter gaming was ruining my mental faculties as well as making me crazy blasting the bad guys away till O' Dark thirty. Caused me to increasingly become a drunkard to include overeating munchies. Once the drunkenness took hold the Bitterness ran rough-shod to the point my wife was ready to divorce me. She had had enough !

   Yes, there was COMM's, we were a large group of vets to include active duty personnel from around the world.

   NONE–said and/admitted to their shrinks to to playing virtual reality combat games, as their symptoms grew worse as well.

2. yeah no this isnt going to work first of all once it happed there is no going back to fix those memories idk what the fuck these guy are tyring to cure somthing that can only be over come by years of real life therapy this is just fucked up forcing people to remmeber somthing they don't want to remember if a 70 year old vet was in nam and seen some shit im pretty sure him going back to the past with VR would just make him go ape shit on the idiots making him do this little project

3. What about ptsd for rape victims? I'm sick and tired of people assuming only vets need help.

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