{"id":4138,"date":"2017-09-23T16:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T07:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2017-09-23T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T13:00:19","slug":"basal-ganglia-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/basal-ganglia-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Basal Ganglia, PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wonder how much of the disorientation aspect of PTSD is the result of the packaged habit behavior delegated to the basal ganglia being wiped out in an environment which does not reinforce it?
\nVeterans returning from the war will become overwhelmed at having too many choices of peanut butter. They can just about forget how to walk in a crowd of people whose recognition signs [Hello, I am a person — I see and acknowledge that you are a person as well] are all different from his. He is not a person and gets his ass kicked by peanut butter.
\nThe internal autopilot that drives you to work in the morning is the result of habits. The human brain packages groups of related actions into clusters, so that the myriad small details of driving to work in the morning falls into a single thing. A single manageable<\/em> thing. For many veterans, life outside of a combat zone becomes unmanageable. When your habits are deconstructed and everything must be handled anew, as an incoming round of reality which must be handled NOW because now is where you are, life is unmanageable.
\nThose who stop giving a damn have found an effective coping mechanism, but this is a bad road to travel too far. I read the spectacularly expensive TRIBE by Sebastian Junger<\/a>, weighing it a $20 for less than three hours of audio. But overpriced is the wrong word, and there is a lot of great insight in the book. I also need to read The Power of Habit, which is supposed to go into the whole basal ganglia thing. I was watching a YouTube video\u00a0HOW to quit Sugar & Unhealthy Habits<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0which made reference to TPoH, and that gave me pause to jot down this little note.<\/p>\n

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Thank you Dime for the link to another interesting-sounding book, and MLH for the forward assist on the author’s name.<\/p>\n

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I wonder how much of the disorientation aspect of PTSD is the result of the packaged habit behavior delegated to the basal ganglia being wiped out in an environment which does not reinforce it?
Veterans returning from the war will become overwhelmed at having too many choices of peanut butter. They can just about forget how to walk in a crowd of people whose recognition signs [Hello, I am a person — I see and acknowledge that you are a person as well] are all different from his. He is not a person and gets his ass kicked by peanut butter.
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