Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children

Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by jwmoz on Sunday June 19, 2022 @11:37PM (#31806046)

I've taken many long flights west to east, and many internal flights and have been unable to stop a physical anxiety response when flying, so it isn't as simple as that. Had the first flight in nearly 2 years a month ago, just a quick one and on the way back got hit with some horrible turbulence which caused me to have a mild panic attack. The only thing I found that helped me before was drinking or taking valium.

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Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by dQw4w9WgXcQ on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:10AM (#31806190)

> have been unable to stop a physical anxiety response

Well there's your issue. Anxiety attacks are like a rushing river, if you try to swim against or stop the current you'll get nowhere. Ride it out and know that if you felt things got really got bad, you could ask any airline attendant for help - they deal with nervous flyers every day across tens of thousands of people every year and would help you through it compassionately and respectfully. We're all in this together man, nobody is going to make you feel bad for being human.

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Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by cjblomqvist on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:38AM (#31806342)

No. Talk to a real therapist. It's not as simple as this. They can guide you to keep the right level. Don't it wrong can make it worse.

I used to date a physiologist researching/specialized in how to overcome anxiety.

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Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by DiggyJohnson on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:21AM (#31808072)

You are literally saying: don’t trust this guys experience, my girlfriend is a doctor. I don’t think it’s as strong a point as you think it is.

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Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by solar-ice on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:45AM (#31809677)

While true to a point... there's also just lots of things that might work for a minority of people but are major risks for most. Someone who has actually studied the risks around exposure therapy is probably in a better position to discuss the risks of exposure therapy; and how to manage those risks. The person initially recommending it made no discussion of this whatsoever, and implied it was perfectly safe.

We all see people advising stupid things every day, because it's worked for them so far. There's the lichtenberg wood burning people who explain how to pull out a microwave transformer and use it to burn patterns into wood... and fail to acknowledge just how likely it is to kill you.

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