PDHPE
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- Okay, okay take it all! Please just don't shoot me!
- Give me all of your money or I'll shoot you right in the head!
- Later that night...
- It was good, it was just...why can't I breathe? Why am I so anxious? Please help me.
- It's gonna be okay. Just try to relax. I think you are having an anxiety attack.
- How was work today, honey?
- The next morning...
- Can we talk about what happened last night? Since you are a psychiatrist, I thought you might know what happened.
- Sure, but lets go somewhere before we start talking.
- In this scene, the main character is being held at gunpoint and begin forced to hand over any money that he has to the thief. This situation sticks with the main character as he believed that he was going to die and war extremely terrified.
- Last night when we were talking, your anxiety attack started when we spoke about the store. So what happened?
- Okay, lets go home. I know exactly what we have to do.
- This scary man came and robbed me. I thought I was going to die!
- The main characters wife asks him how his day of work was. This conversation sparks his PTSD condition and begins to have an anxiety attack where he has intense feelings of distress and a shortness of breath.
- Honey, I think that you suffer from a condition called PTSD, which is sparked by a traumatic experience.
- Exactly.
- So this is has all been caused by that man that robbed me yesterday?
- So how do we fix this?
- After his anxiety attack last night, the main character is confused yet curious as to why his anxiety attack occurred. In finding out the answers, he asks his wife, a psychiatrist. His wife already has an idea as to what is wrong so she takes her husband back to the store.
- We are going to try something called prolonged exposure therapy. It is going to help you confront the situation.
- Just think back to that moment and remain calm.
- It will take 8 to 15, 90-minute sessions, usually on a weekly basis
- I think it is working. I am not experiencing any of the symptoms.
- The main character and his wife arrive at the scene of the incident and he begins to suffer similar symptoms as last night. His wife asks what happened and realises that he now suffers from PTSD and knows what she must do to help him.
- The main characters wife explains what his condition is and how it was all began. Once he hears of the news, he is immediately wanting to know how it is going to be fixed.
- In this scene, the main characters wife explains how his condition is going to be cured through a process called prolonged exposure therapy, which has been proven by other therapists, where he will need to think back to the situation whilst remaining calm and that it will not be instant; it will take it will take 8 to 15, 90-minute sessions, usually on a weekly basis.
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