Avoidance exacerbates PTSD and can lead to complications like substance abuse and self-injurious behaviors. — Whalespan
Avoidance exacerbates PTSD and can lead to complications like substance abuse and self-injurious behaviors.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
✕NOTSUPPORTED
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“PTSD feeds on avoidance if we pretend that something didn't happen if we pretend that it will go away if we pretend that treatment is not necessary then and that that's when it gets complicated and he gets complicated with uh substance abuse he gets complicated with self-injurious behaviors”
“but there's one thing that really gets in the way and that's something that in my team we call — we have a phrase that we say PTSD feeds on avoidance if we pretend that something didn't happen if we pretend that it will go away if we pretend that treatment is not necessary then and that that's when it gets complicated and he gets complicated with — substance abuse he gets complicated with self-injurious behaviors and then at that point it becomes harder to treat”