Positive effect on victims of showing concern

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>At 21:52 -0400 8/9/2000, Madhava Gosh (das) ACBSP (New Vrindavan - USA) wrote:

>I have included below an article from a recent issue of JAMA.

 

Thanks. This piece is particularly interesting:

 

>To explain these findings, we speculate

>that the vigorous assessment protocol used in this

>study is responsible for most of the treatment effect.

 

I.e. people may have gotten better because they were made to think

about and talk about the stressful events a great deal. That's what

desensitization therapy is (at least partly) about. The drugs

apparently produced some additional benefit, but simply was bringing

the stressful events out in the open, and allowing the related

emotions, thoughts, as well as verbal (and presumably written)

expressions was also very therapeutic in itself.

 

Those findings seem very relevant to our situation. Time to open

those closets and sweep under the ISKCON rugs.

 

Ys,

Madhusudani dasi