The following is a presentation of T F N N. The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now Steve Rhodes. Good day from T F N N. Welcome to the July 19th. The fantastic Friday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, Steve V. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. Let's make sure we have an extraordinary day, an extraordinary weekend, an extraordinary life, and the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little two by four shift, it means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is gonna toss at us. Today, you and I, we're gonna go check on the circumstance of these markets. We're gonna go figure out what the bulls and the bears, what the buyers and the sellers are communicating to you and I just passed, well, eight o'clock in the morning. That's right. If you're listening in at the normal time frame, it's eight oh seven right now. We're gonna make this show as pertinent as we can for you today, provide you with some numbers that you can take a look at where price is trading in relation to those numbers at the one o'clock hour as well as coming into today's close. Of course, if you're listening and live, I would love to hear from you. So give us a call at<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you can't call in, we've got you covered. Just send me an email. Steve at tfnn.com. Inside that subject heading, please put radio show question. And of course, in our Tigers Den, any ping will do. So let's go ahead, get this show started on fantastic Friday. Of course, this is Tiger Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to less show right now. Dow equity futures are trading up 77 points. The print is 27278. S&P futures are up five. They're trading out of 3002. NASDAQ futures up 16, about two tenths of a percent to the upside trade. It's 7950. Russell 2000 futures are flat. Trading out at 1558 overseas last evening, you had the Shanghai finish up 24 points, eight tenths of a percent. They hang sang up over 1%. That was 303 points in the Nikkei up at 2% 420 points. The upside in Australia, the S&P 200. They're finishing up 51 points or eight tenths of a percent this morning. We've got Europe is trading higher. The Dax is up one tenth of a percent or 12 points. The FTSE up about one little over one tenth of a percent. That's nine points. She's trading at 7502 out there. Goldilocks trading out at 1438. That's up nearly 11 bucks in silver 1641. That's 21 cents to the upside. Lights we crewed getting in on the action. 69 pennies, one and a quarter percent trade out at 5599 team on futures. The 30 year back six ticks and two ticks on the 10 year note. King dollar is up 236 ticks out there. I've got a 10 minute delay, so it may be something slightly higher than that. The Euro trading lower the pound lower the end lower the Canadian dollar. The Looney is lower. There's your strength inside the US dollar index. And this is a chart that I always like to start off with. Typically, I will lead with this. I didn't this morning inside the newsletter had other things that I wanted to show. But just to give folks a perspective as what's going on across the globe. What's going on inside the futures markets, whether it's equity futures or it's commodity futures or debt futures out there, just to get a perspective on the day and what is going on. Now the first question that came in coming from John and the Tiger stand. And the question is looking at both sides of the trade for the Treasury bonds. And the question is, where's the low risk buy for a long and where is the low risk short for a short out there? John, it's a it'd be pretty easy for me to just simply pull over this chart here. And first to let you know, I have a bearish bias. Now, I don't have a bearish bias. Although you could say I have a bearish bias. It's the daily chart that has the bearish bias. What I mean by that, folks, is if we take a look at this chart out here, this is the daily timeframe chart, you'll notice that I've got actually this little stair step line. That's the weekly oscillator and change. I know the weekly Stevie Green line for those of you that listen to the show. No, we take a look at that green slash red line right now. They're both green out there. And where prices trade in relation to those is very helpful to you and I. So the easy answer, John, with regard where is that low risk sell opportunity? It's a 155 and I don't know if it's a I've got to do the math conversion out here, probably about 155 15, something like that out there. That's Stevie's green line. I say that because what we're seeing is a bounce prices trading above the top of its profile out there. And so that is really the next resistance point. If you're looking for a daily timeframe, where's the next cell opportunity? As far as where would the next buy opportunity be? Well, that would be perhaps down towards the bottom of its profile. But again, I think that what's really transpiring here, John, inside the Treasury bonds is going to be the makeup of an A to B equal CD to the downside. I say that simply because we did see T bonds break through the bottom of a prior box. We have a new box that formed below the prior box. Yes, prices above resistance that says, Okay, where's the next resistance level? That's Stevie's green line. That may be where prices headed to in order to generate an A to B equal CD to the downside that would be as this thing going to let me draw it. It's going to screw with me. That's not the A to B equal CD. You're you're proficient with this. And so you know what it is that we would be looking for. Ultimately, where I believe that T bonds are headed back to is the breakout area, the most recent breakout area. That's 148 13 out there. So that's on the daily timeframe chart. Now, I don't know if your question was with regard to a daily timeframe or some other type of timeframe out there. If you are looking at a shorter term timeframe, by shorter, I'm suggesting a 30 minute timeframe out here than here right now. T bonds are so we were suggesting that T bonds might had higher out there. And the 30 minute chart says resistance is right around the 155 04 level. That's a TD ST resistance line. We saw price poke above it just slightly yesterday afternoon, then it got right back down below there. We see here basically a series of both higher highs and lower lows. So right now, I don't have a good short term buy opportunity level for you. That would have to be 150 405. That's that support area, the potential support air 153 28 is another one. But from the low risk to the short side to be 150 504. No other pattern really that is present when I take a look at the 30 minute timeframe out there. You asked about T bonds, you know, one of the things that newsletter subscribers get each day is this and they get this for many different instruments. We'll kind of go through that this morning here might make it easy for everybody. So John, not knowing the timeframe that you're looking at, here are your TAS market profiles, your TAS market profiles being for a one hour, a two hour, your five hour timeframe, which I know you love the daily as well as the weekly. You also see 150 605. That's a new weekly profile that formed for Treasury bonds formed last week. So 150 605 is a significant resistance level as well. So hopefully this chart here, this set of charts with regard to profiles will work for you and your specific timeframe out there. So thanks for writing in and folks, I want to hear from you as well. 877 9276 648. Of course, you've been listening in at the normal time at now 114 in the afternoon. Don't call in. Not that we don't want you to call just that I'm not there because it's 814 in the morning. So we get back from this first breakout here. Let's go take a look at. Stevie loves to look at because you should love to look at it, too. Because it is one of the keys to understanding these markets, and that is where is the flow of capital going just over the past four days? Where is it flowing out of? Hope you're right back. 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TFNN.com educating investors. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Welcome back folks. Let's go to our second question. This one coming in from Earl. Earl Wright says, hey Steve, hey Earl. Actually said hi, not hey, but using seasonal times, so he's referring to the seasonal time frame, so let me go ahead and put that chart up on our screen for so he says Earl says, hey Steve, using seasonal times is now the time to take profits and wait for October to buy again. Will the market go back to the June 3rd, 4th levels out here? So first with regard to seasonal folks, if we take a look at the sea, you've heard of the cell in May cycle. Really the market is broken down into favorable and unfavorable seasonal cycles. For example, the favorable seasonal cycle really kicks off at the end of January. Now this is the average of the Dow over the last 86 years out here and right around the end of January around January 30th out there is typically where we see the Dow move higher into May. The first high usually comes in around the middle of May, May 19th. Sometimes it can be May 1st out there and usually we see things chug along then right around June 25th. We get a little bottom one last push into the summertime blues and the summertime blues typically by the way who sings the summertime blues out there by if we take a look at where the summertime blues begins July 21st. Now today's July 19th, 21st becomes what Sunday out there. So are we near that time period where it appears that the markets may be moving lower? Well, what I like to do with the cycle time frames, Earl, is see what the patterns are that are present inside the markets out here. So if we do that and then the other thing here's this chart folks that you certainly want to make sure that you're aware of. Here's the Dow. These are the cash indices, the Dow, the S&P, upper left, upper right and then the Nasdaq lower left and the Russell 2000 lower right. If you take a look at the two upper panels Dow and S&P you can see that prices run right into a trend line resistance level out there. So we're also up against a resistance zone. We're into the potentially where the market would typically turn down. Same thing for the Nasdaq 100 out there. The Russell 2000, which has just simply been trading sideways for many months, has not been able to break above 16 or close above I should say 1602 out there. So everything here points to okay we're up towards a resistance level, then the question is well what's going on in the short term time frame. With regard to the Dow, the Dow here and I'll thank John in the Tiger's Den for in essence pointing this out to me, although when we were talking yesterday it's really not looking at the Dow instead is looking at the S&P and notice the same pattern out there, which is a Tommy DeMarc sequential pattern. Now in the case of the Dow, the Dow confirmed, this is the Dow that we're looking at, it also confirmed a, well yesterday was the confirmation of that TD sequential count, the actual sequential count number 13 took place out here a few days ago on the 15th out there and then it was yesterday's close below the bar of the close for bars earlier that generated the sell signal for the Dow. So Earl you have a sell pattern, valid sell pattern inside the Dow that is lining up with the seasonal that is lining up with trading into resistance. So all I can do is share with you you've got everything in there to in essence draw the conclusion that you have. Now I also want to make this specific statement. I do not believe that the highs that we've seen and even though we're up in this trend line resistance area are highs that are going to last over the course of the next year or so. So that is my take out there. So with regard to trading accounts versus long term retirement accounts, look with regard to any accounts prices up towards resistance, you use that information how you wish, take a look at that seasonal cycle and take a look at the daily timeframe charts and the ES mini as an example on a daily timeframe. It has confirmed a top that's the rose momentum indicator top, the last significant top inside the Dow or inside the ES mini, by the way, took place out here May day May 1st that was with the rose momentum indicator top out there. So there's your your signal inside the ES mini. So you've got that prices trading below Stevie's green line trading within the profile. If you're a conservative trader, you won't get a confirmed change in trend signal. Now look these patterns don't always work. They work enough. I don't mean enough like a flip of a coin enough. They work well much more. Well, well much more. Good Lord, send me back to grammar school. But you know what I mean out here. Here's the point. Here's the number. If you're conservative trader, there's not going to be a confirmed change in trend until you see a key level of support fail. And right now that is the bottom of its bearish structure daily profile. That's 29 69 50. 29 69 50. For those of you not familiar with the ES mini, don't be using round numbers out here. It only moves in quarters out there. You're always going to get to a round number. You know, you get two out of four are going to be round. Well, you've got a quarter 50 cent 75 and then you're at whole numbers out there. So in essence, two, two out of five are going to be 29 69 50 inside the equity futures for the ES mini. If you're going to get to a quarter 50 cent 75, you're going to get to a quarter 50 cent 75. The price closes below that. Then you've got a confirmed change in trend. If we take a look at the NDX one of the NASDAQ, the NQ, I should say it's got a confirmed pattern out here. It's Larry Pes event does a three drive to a top pattern that has formed that has confirmed it confirmed back here. The way that patterns confirm folks is they generate these numbers. You've got a bear sash candle. You've got a key reversal sandals candle and sandal that all taking place on July 16th out there. So unless those highs get taken out and even if the high gets taken out, that's 8001 point 50. What that's going to do is that's going to get you to letter number G wave number seven and a wave number seven that's where you can see changes in trend as well that's where you can see changes in trend as well. So Earl, you've got a topping signal inside on a daily base of the ES inside, which is the S and P 500 as well. If I put that out, there's got the same signals. The NASDAQ, the NDX 100, the NQ and the adult Russell 2000. It doesn't have any signals out there, so to speak, other than the signal of just simply being all out week. So Earl, you've got the same signals. That's where you can see changes in trend as well. Still things pulled back to the June 3rd area inside the ES mini. If it closes below price close below the 29 6950 level, then the answer is more likely. Yes. And no. Yes, because the breakout level, this is where price would then usually pull back to when you see a change in trend. It would pull back to where price most recently came out. The ES mini is going to have to break through that support level. Um in order to get that message that price may head back into those June areas out there. And what you and I are will have to do most certainly is just simply pay attention. If price does continue to go up, then the ES mini is going to have to break through that support level. In order to get that message that price may head back into those June areas out there. And what we're going to do is we're going to get that message that price does continue to move lower. We just simply have to continue to keep paying attention to any patterns that might form on the way down just as we would on the way up. So hope that answers your question out there. So with regard to that, taking that one step forward or what's that next step? So here's what we know. We know that the ES mini. We know that the ES mini is going to have to break through the whole flow of capital, which is what this chart here does. And I know we're going into break. But here's the here's the issue both Earl that you and I have right now. You see the Dow equity futures contract. 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We just spent some time because of a question that Earl had posed with regard to seasonality. Market top signals, things of that sort of what to anticipate in Earl's asking about going into the to the unfavorable seasonal cycle, which doesn't typically end until the middle of October out here. Now when we the chart that we're looking at right now, it's not actually a chart. It just a set of data, but these are these are these are perhaps the most important pieces of data that you as a trader need to understand. So if the charts are correct, the ES has topped the NASDAQ has topped the Dow has topped out here. What we really need to see is it's not just about how those vehicles are trading in your dollars. It is to you. You really only interested yourself in how is this trading and am I making money or losing money in your currency? You don't spend time sitting there. Typically you don't spend time saying, Hey, what's the other guy thinking? The other guy being the other guy sitting in euros or sitting in pounds or sitting in yen. Okay, primary currencies out there, primary reserve currencies out there. And that's really a must.  It's available to me. It's available to me. It's available to you. So it's available to us out there, and we really need to know if you're playing poker, as an example, those of you that play poker, I don't care whether it's Texas Hold them or it's a seven card, you know, whatever out there. Well, don't you like to know what the other guys are holding?  The answer that is yes. So then you would pay dearly for that. Yet why aren't you doing that when it comes to the markets and understanding what the dealer has or what the other guy has because in order for something to move lower or move higher and do it in a concerted way, it must be moving higher or lower in all those major currencies. Otherwise, if you're wondering who's buying because if in the term of euros prices still rising and it has over the past four days out there versus it's moved lower in terms of yen pounds and U.S. dollars out there, there's your natural buyer. So that's what this chart here shows up. We also can take a look at the indices, the DAX, the FTSE. You can see each of those over the last four days are moving lower in all currencies out here. So money is not flowing into those areas, okay? It's not flowing into the Nikkei. The Nikkei was up 2%. Up 2% last night, yet it's still down over the course of the last four days. We take a look at the topping signals that came in and they use the topping signals of the U.S. market as our benchmark to figure out what is the global flow of capital. Look, this is the short term timeframe. This using from four days. I know that in order to be short which I am that what I need to see, what we need to see out here. The ES mini you know that's over in the upper right corner of the market is up over in over in Hong Kong. The Hang Seng is a higher in all major currencies out there. Australia. We talked about how they closed higher last night. So you can see a flow of capital into those areas emerging markets up slightly as well. So it's really important to take a look at there. I believe that's important to take a look at what subscribers and I look at each morning is I'm looking at the Dow and ES mini as far as their futures and how they're trading in currencies. This is as of today what's going on what's going on in T bonds out there. So for example John was asking me about T bonds. Where's a good buy or where's a good short opportunity. What John now knows is that in taking a look at this even though we're down just a few ticks three 30 seconds inside of T bonds in dollars. What he also knows is that's not the case with regard to in this case here I'm taking a look at T bonds equity futures the DAX down below and so forth and this is really a helpful understanding of what's going on in the U.S. John but there's buyers over here I say buyers because they're not losing money in their currency. It kind of see what I mean out here so I'm always looking for Hey is there some kind of divergence or not with regard to in this case understanding of what's going on what the subscribers also see each day or each morning out here as they see the task market profiles for daily and weekly timeframes just numerically the top of center and the bottom of the boxes all of these instruments out there commodity futures as well down at the bottom if you trade those you want to know this information you may not use daily and weekly timeframes so Stevie all their pertinent profile levels and for we're all visual so some people like just looking at the numbers just give me the facts ma'am out here for those that are visual they then get this John and I and you we took a look at the same set of charts here for treasury bonds inside the newsletter each day is the visual version of this on the 612300 daily and weekly time frame where you can see the details just give me the facts ma'am out here just simply to assist you with your trading investing you get that for the ES you get that for the NQ you get that for the Dow you get that for the Russell 2000 so if you're trading any of those instruments information is king out there I believe that it is and if this information that if you're trading those with your neighborhood just simply saying be careful be careful be careful out here don't get too caught up in the I am a non-emotional trader I trade by the emotion of the markets we're going to go back to gold. We're going to be confirming bear signals and bullish signals out there. Um and so we'll go. We'll go back to gold. Here's lights. We crude lights. We crude, uh, you know, again, all these different timeframes with their profiles to assist you again. We had already taken a look at T bond. So so here they are. So in essence, that is what the subscribers are seeing each morning. I'd love for you to be a subscriber to get that video. And if you're interested in that video, you can see one of the elements you're going to be using as a guideline is, you know, where's the spot fix index trading in relationship to its 50 day exponential moving average as long as price remains below that. By the way, the 50 day here we can see right now at 8 37 morning is 14 67. We're trading at 13 49 also tells us that there's plenty of liquidity market. That is what the spot volatility index does not matter. 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George and then you can kind of make that decision out here. And I'll just simply go to the Taz market profile. So hopefully George you've been listening in during the one of the first or second segment. You're going to see a lot of people that are selling their cell patterns and signals that are out there. Now one of the ones that we looked at was the N Q and so the N Q George might be a place that you would focus on and pay attention to today. You're asking was the bounce or was the move higher yesterday overnight this morning. Was that something to be sold? So if we just hone in on the N Q. George because you may or may not be familiar with this or somebody else listening may or may not be familiar with. I'm going to turn off price.  I turn off price because price is irrelevant other than hey where's a trading and where's a trading in relationship to in essence this Taz daily market profile which formed just a few days ago. The importance of this is a bullish piece of information bearish piece of information for you and I depend on where the closes at what we know and it's bearish in structure for the following reason. It's it's because of where sellers are lined up. What the profiles tell us is they tell us where support and resistance is and then that's the top in the bottom. So resistance at 79 75 sellers are lined up there. Just think of it as Humpty at 77 94 that's where all the pieces get put together again. So you've got support and resistance. I always like to think of these lines as my virtual football field and the top in the bottom are nothing more than the first down markers. If you will, they change distance wise. You can see that on the chart here. But then what's really important is that point of control that center line of the box. If it is near or closer in proximity to the top, then you have a bearish structure because there is where both bars and sellers are believe there's fair value with inside this price area. So for Stevie, if you've got sellers there, you also have some bars, but sellers there and sellers just above at 79 75 to me that is lined up. That is resistance. So now if we put price up there, we ask the question out about T bonds, but hey, where's your low risk opportunity to sell the N Q. Well, we know that it's at the top of that profile. It's a 79 75 65 out there. That is the resistance area out here. So George, if price closes above that, I have an expression, which is there is nothing more bullish than a failed bearish pattern out there that would say, well, things would be relatively better. But I think that closing above that isn't going to do it for me. This is going to do it for Stevie, and that is because even though we've got the three drive to a top pattern, if it does take out the highs from July 16th out here and which means that price moves above that profile. Well, then what happens is it gets to wave numbers G wave number seven. I should say letter number G on my screen out here. We're not there because we don't know what's going to happen. We don't know what's going to change in trend out there, whether it's at the bottom or whether it's at the top. So George, is this answering your question? What we know. Let's just summarize what it let's just state the facts. Let's just stay by the numbers. Here's what we know. The N Q has in essence bounced right up into resistance. Does the market hold up today or does the market hold up? Does the market hold up today or not? The key level for the N Q to bust through in order for a change in trend or for that three drive to a top pattern to take hold has to be a close below support 77 94 70 out there. So that's what we know. We take a look at the market profiles out here. We don't have the same test of those highs inside the ES or the Dow. And that's what we know. The message really lies with inside the N Q. In other words, if the N Q can get above resistance out there, then what we should see is the ES mini, which also has a bear structured box that should be able to make its move up to 30 23 level out there inside the Dow equity futures contract. The Dow yesterday, George was giving us the signal that there should be more rally in the next couple of weeks. So let's take a look at what we know. We talked about the bear structured here. You can see the center of the box. Which is at 27 249 much closer to the bottom at 27 175. So we knew that and that's what I was looking for yesterday was a close below 27 175. If we had gotten that yesterday, then George, my answer would be easier to say, Hey, you've gotten the confirmed change in the number of buyers hanging out between 27 175 and 27 249 out there. So hopefully that is helpful to you in interpreting what the message of the markets is, and it really all boils down to the N Q. Now if we take a look at the N Q and go to a short term time frame out here, George, what you're going to see is that last evening at about 6 30 or so you had a TD set up nine count that turned out to be the top of the box, which is 15 59 15 60 30 is the resistance level inside the 30 minute time frame out there. It price moves above that. Um then you would anticipate further rally, um as well this morning. So but you've got your data points. You know, or real resistance, but you've got your data points out there. You've got your data points out there. You've got your data points out there. You've got your data points. You know, or real resistances out here and hopefully that assist you in your with with with my reply to to your question out there. And thanks for the question. Much appreciated. No other questions that have come in that I'm aware of just yet.  And so what we're going to talk about Dr Copper today is that it's trade above 2.7 425. That is the breakdown line on a daily basis. We can see how that level has held. That's the beauty of the TD set up nine count just because the nine count assists us with a potential top or bottom and also provides us with a key level of where price broke out or broke down. Price gets back to break down areas breaks down. It's not the end of the day, but it's the end of the day. So, uh, Copper was at 2.6 435. You did see a close below it on July 9th. You always like to have follow through follow through means an additional close below the next day didn't happen. 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First let's take a look at the daily time frame here for today. We're going to take a look at a little bit of a little bit of a look at the 14 42 90 was the top of its weekly profile price closed over it just slightly yesterday. It has pulled back underneath that area. It is a bearish structured box out here with the bottom of the box being at 12 91 40. That's really not going to matter at this. Whoops I don't know what happened there. That's really not going to matter come into play until price has gone up and down the bottom of its daily profile and the center line of its bearish structured weekly profile, which is at 13 92 40. So here's what we know so far prices. Resistance has held inside of the gold contract. What else do we know about gold? Well, what we know about gold is we take a look at this daily contract and Stevie's other tools out here. Price was moving higher, doing less relative energy makes wave number G letter number G number G letter number G number G letter number number G letter number T and that cannot be confirmed until Monday out here. But you do have now two additional potential topping signals on the daily timeframe out there and you know, it says, Hey, price could pull back into the 13 36 level out here. So that's what the daily timeframe chart is telling you and I the weekly timeframe chart has to the right side. Confirmation took place a few weeks ago when the shooting star candle formed out there. Brent, I don't have anything on the shorter term cycles. Here's the 30 minute pattern. The 30 minute chart out here. Nothing to identify top or bottom. Watch 14 22 10 on any move lower. If that fails and price continues to move lower. Folks, thanks much for being here. Stay tuned for a great look at what's going on here.


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This episode was prerecorded as part of a live continuing education webinar. On-demand CEUs are still available for this presentation through all CEUs. Register at allceus.com slash counselor toolbox. I'd like to welcome everybody to today's presentation, a strengths-based approach to treating PTSD. One of the things that we're going to talk about in this presentation is really looking at how some of the symptoms of PTSD are kind of functional when you look at it from a survival point of view. We're going to highlight how that stuff is functional, define PTSD, examine the function and meaning of these symptoms, and we're going to spend a fair amount of time there. Develop an understanding of why some people develop PTSD and others don't. We've found that a lot of people who experience a trauma go through it, deal with it, and don't develop PTSD. So what's different about the people who do? And the short answer is we're not 100% sure, but we do know that there are some risk factors. And then we'll explore some useful interventions for people with PTSD. So humans and animals experience reactions to prompt behaviors.  Let's do it again. But our emotions are basically kind of our brain signal that helps us understand what to do. So we are rewarded for things that help us survive. We're rewarded for eating. We're rewarded for, you know, getting away from the hungry lion.  Achieve a reward or avoid punishment, or, you know, if you can get a reward and avoid punishment at the same time, doubly better. But we want to look at things in terms of why is this happening? We know that living organisms typically do things that are most rewarding. And when we're working with clients, changing that concept of most rewarding to help them look at what's most rewarding in the right now, may not be most rewarding in the big scheme of things. So a lot of times we're trying to get them to move from a emotional, reactive, impulsive sort of action to looking at the big picture and choosing behaviors that'll help them get towards those goals of happiness and health that are rewarding in the long term. But we've got to make sure that they're at least somewhat rewarding in the present. PTSD, the way we typically think about it, traditional exposure to an event or multiple events. People who are in the military or crime victims may experience PTSD if you were in a situation where there was an extreme trauma. My stepfather's family was killed on Christmas Eve in a house fire, entire family. That's definitely traumatic. It only took one instance of that for him to develop PTSD, no doubt. Now there's also what we call gradual onset PTSD, which develops in result to repeated exposure to horrific or threatening events causing a sense of helplessness. And you're like, well, what does that mean? Well, these may not be ones that you encounter one time and it's enough to cause PTSD, it may. But when we look at it, we see people who are involved in law enforcement who have been survivors of child abuse or neglect or domestic violence. Think about their situations. They're encountering bad stuff and mega bad stuff sometimes on a daily or almost daily basis. And even if one episode wasn't enough to develop the PTSD, continually being bombarded by that trauma, by that powerlessness really starts changing the way they view the world in general. So the definition of PTSD, and I'm going to go through this quickly because you all have a DSM-5, exposure to a horrifying event in which there was a sense of helplessness. All right, now we've all seen things where we felt helpless and it hasn't caused PTSD. So, you know, again, we're going to say, all right, that's a starting point. And then we want to look at what are the rest of the symptoms. So for each of the symptoms that follows will identify the function, what may trigger that symptom or make it worse. We're going to try to encourage clients to look at how do you deal with it right now and what helps mitigate it, what helps make it so it's not quite so intense. And what are some other things that you think you might be able to do. So if you want to think back to Tuesday's presentation, when we started talking about a strengths-based approach, there are two basic things that we're looking at. Prevention, you know, vulnerability prevention, trying to make sure that they have as much energy and as much stuff kind of built up and going in the right direction as possible. They want to make sure that they're ready to handle anything that comes their way. We all do that to some extent, but we want to make sure that they are trying to prepare.  And those are ways that you deal with the current stressor. So you're not preventing vulnerabilities, you're actually dealing with that particular stressor. So re-experiencing the traumatic event can be experienced by clients through intrusive or upsetting memories, flashbacks, nightmares. Those are the three big ones. And then when these happen, the person has feelings of intense distress and intense physical panic reactions to reminders. So understanding that when people experience a trauma, they may re-experience it over and over again. And that is so frustrating for a lot of people with PTSD. They're like, I understand it's in the past. I want it to go away. I don't want to think about it anymore, but it seems like it's constantly coming back and it's getting triggered.  So what's the function of re-experiencing it? Well, you know, I generally ask clients what their thought is before I go on, you know, a tangent, but think about it.  You know, the best reward of any behavior is helping you survive. So why would your brain do that?  I want to make sure that this doesn't happen again. I want to make sure that you're protected. Okay. So if you've got this reminder going, you know, think about all the advertisements we see on TV for breast cancer prevention and all these other things, the constant reminders coming up going, you need to be aware. You need to remember to protect yourself. And you know, people may or may not want to see those all the time. Same thing with sort of, with re-experiencing traumatic events. Your brain is trying to make sure that you don't get in that situation again. So depending on the client, depending on the cause, whatever the traumatic event or events were, then we need to look at triggers. So what triggers this re-experiencing? Well, being in the same place or a similar place, we know that smells are some of our strongest memory triggers. So if they smell something, I worked with a client who was a law enforcement officer and responded to a crash on the interstate. Well, long story short, one of the people in the crash got pinned in the vehicle and the vehicle blew up and the officer had to watch the person burn to death. Totally traumatic, felt totally helpless. And, you know, I get that. Smells getting on the interstate and smelling exhaust, even being in the city and being at a stoplight and smelling car exhaust could trigger a flashback. So helping him understand that when he smelled that his brain was going, okay, seems like somewhere we've been before. Don't want to go there again. Helped him get a better understanding of why it was happening. And then we wanted to look at what can you do to help your brain understand you're not there anymore. You're in the present. So we started talking about what mitigates these flashbacks or nightmares or intrusive memories. We want to help people become aware of the things in their environment that may trigger it. If they are a rape victim, watching law and order special victims unit or criminal minds, probably not the best thing, because, you know, there are a lot of sexual assault scenes. In those sorts of, in those sorts of shows. I have a good friend who was in the military did eight tours, and he will not watch certain shows or most shows that have to do with sort of docu dramas about the military black Hawk down won't go anywhere near it. So, being aware of the things that will trigger it and a lot of people think about visual triggers. But we want to make sure they're aware of smell triggers, as well as maybe time of day triggers or even time of season. If you've ever gone outside, I love the fall. It's my favorite season. Go outside and I can smell the crispness in the air, and it reminds me of, you know, past falls. That's a pleasant reminder. But so something is innocuous as the smell of the air can trigger a flashback for people. Things that they see, etc. So make sure they go through all of their senses, seeing, hearing, smelling, even tasting. Sometimes when you're in a situation you get a certain taste in your mouth.  And in touch. What did they feel at that particular point in time? When, you know, you're in a situation where there's fire involved, you may feel the intense heat from the fire, which may come back and trigger a flashback. So encourage people to be aware of all the triggers. Does that mean they have to avoid all these? Heck no. They would end up not having a quality of life. Once they become aware of them, then they can develop some grounding techniques that can help them stay in the present and go, okay, I'm safe right now. Nothing bad is happening. Exacerbating factors would be other things that they're not doing preventatively. So I might ask, you know, are there times when you're not having as many nightmares or as many flashbacks? And what's different then? Maybe they're getting more sleep. Maybe they are exercising more. Again, maybe it's a different time of year. Maybe there's a particular time of year for my stepfather, obviously the holidays themselves beginning like right before Thanksgiving and all the way through Christmas are really tough for him. And that's when he starts having more symptoms. Being aware of that so he can take better care of himself and know how to set certain boundaries and go, I can't do that right now. And the supportive people in your client's network also need to be able to be aware of that so they can be supportive and go, okay, I know this is a rough time of year for you. How can I help? So re-experiencing is one of the symptoms that brings a lot of clients into treatment with us because this oftentimes impairs their activities of daily living. I mean, they feel like they can't get away from it. When I worked in community mental health, we had one unit that was filled exclusively with military and former military people, and they would have night terrors a lot. So we would want to talk about what's making them worse, what's making them better. These particular gentlemen, it was a male unit, were also detoxing. It was a co-occurring disorders facility. And they were detoxing from substances that they'd been using to numb and silence, if you will, the memories and the flashbacks. And when they couldn't access that, guess what? It got worse for a little while. So they had to figure out, okay, what can I do to deal with this? The intense panic reactions will talk about what a panic attack feels like. What's the purpose of it? You know, that's your body really gearing up to help you fight or flee. Okay, so if you notice that you actually don't need to fight or flee, you look around and you go, okay, I'm safe. How do you diffuse that? And we talk about, and I referred to it last presentation, combat breathing. Breathe in for four, hold for four, exhale for four. By slowing down your breathing, your heart rate automatically starts to slow down. The faster people's heart beats and the faster and shallower they're breathing, the more likely they are to start getting dizzy, which tends to make them feel even more scared and exacerbate the panic reaction. Okay, so you have that whole flashback thing, and I just kind of put re-experiencing in terms of flashbacks, whether it's in nightmares or memories or whatever. Then we have this next category, which are symptoms of avoidance and emotional numbing. Well, golly, if you've been through a traumatic event, do you want to keep going through that? Do you want to experience it? Do you want to feel it?   So understanding that avoidance and emotional numbing is protective. It's you going, I can't, that's painful. I don't want to do that again. So that's the function. Understanding that the mind is going, you need a break. You need a breather. Avoiding reminders of the trauma. Again, depending on the situation, reminders of the trauma can be in the news. They can be on regular TV shows. They can be in books. They can be driving down the road. There are probably a lot of triggers out there helping people become aware and desensitize to some of those reminders is going to be helpful. I ask clients when they're exposed to reminders of the trauma, again, what helps them not have a flashback? What helps them get through that situation? Inability to remember important aspects of the trauma. And this is one that befuddles a lot of people. And, you know, we're not really sure exactly why, but there is a hypothesis that during a traumatic event, the brain actually secretes certain chemicals that prevents memory formation. It's kind of protective because you really don't want to remember this. You know, we're going to break up those memories so they're not there. Another theory, which is a little less neurobiological is that people remember stuff, their brain allows them access to things when they have the ability to deal with them. I've worked with clients who they write their autobiography and, you know, I'll read it and but over the course of 30 days, 60 days, 90 days that they were in treatment, they would remember more things. They're like, hey, I had, I didn't even remember that happened or I hadn't thought about that in 20 years. Okay, you know, why did you not think about it when you first wrote your autobiography? You know, you had a lot of other stuff going on and maybe it was just too much for you to handle. So subconsciously, you put it behind a wall. Whatever makes sense to the clients. One of the things I like about the second theory is that when it does or if it does come out, if they start having these memories later on, they can understand it a little bit better than if they started out with a belief that the brain prevented that memory consolidation. Again, we don't know why it happens, but think about how it's benefiting you. If you can't remember important aspects of this trauma, important details, how can that be protective for you? And that's where I come, come at it from or the direction I look at it is each one of these symptoms. How is it protective for you? Because a lot of people look at their symptoms as harmful, you know, and negatively impacting their quality of life. And that's true. I am not disputing that in one bit, but let's walk the middle path, if you will. What's the benefit to it? In what way has it served you until now? You know, we can develop new skills, so you don't have to use that one anymore. But until now, how has it helped you stay safe, healthy and sane? Loss of interest in activities and life in general. Well, when the brain is really stressed, sometimes it quits sending out norepinephrine and dopamine. It goes into conservation mode and it goes, I'm really stressed. I'm feeling like there's threats everywhere. I don't feel safe. So I'm going to go into conservation mode because fighting this PTSD trigger and this PTSD thing, I'm not winning. So there's no point to continue fighting. Well, and one aspect that's good because it's not putting out as much energy on, you know, fighting a losing battle. On the other side, when you don't have norepinephrine and dopamine, you're not going to experience pleasure either. So understanding that HPA axis and helping clients understand it can help them understand some of their emotional numbing. Sometimes they've already dumped as much of their get up and go chemicals as they've made, you know, they are just running on empty, which can help them or cause them to feel a loss of interest and detached from others or emotionally numb. Think about a time when you've been really stressed and I mean really, really stressed, not just it was a bad day at work.  I like my friends. I like my family, whatever, but I cannot take input from one other thing. I'm just I'm at that point where I can't do that PTSD is kind of the same way. When someone is experiencing PTSD they haven't moved to the place where it's not causing a constant threat a constant bombardment with signals that you may not be safe. So feeling detached from others or emotionally numb is also a way to protect oneself because you're already kind of overwhelmed. What do we look at for mitigating factors? So we look at each one of these and we've already talked about reminders of the trauma. Mitigating factors with remembering important aspects. A lot of times I'll talk to my clients about what, why is it so important to remember all the details to you right now? You know, help me understand what you're going to gain by remembering that. And a lot of times it comes down to a sense of power and control. I want to be able to remember it so, you know, I don't feel like I'm going crazy. Okay, I get that. Looking at the underlying motivations, then we can start saying, okay, you may not be able to remember those things right now. What can you do to help yourself move past that? Loss of interest in activities and life in general. What are you doing? Because you're probably not experiencing that every single day. And if you are, are there any periods during the day where there's something that might pique your interest a little bit? These are the same questions we ask clients with major depressive disorder. If you are generally apathetic and can't find pleasure in much of anything, is there anything that makes you smile? What can you do and what are you doing right now to help yourself keep moving forward? Same thing with feeling detached from others or emotionally numb. Social support is so important. However, you know, there's a difference between having a friend that you call or text with when you're feeling really stressed out versus going out on a Friday night, which can be completely overwhelming. So what are you doing to maintain your social support network and allow them to be able to be there to help you when you need it? Symptoms have increased arousal. So we've got some emotional numbness, but we may also have increased arousal. So how does that happen? Think about a soldier in a foxhole. That's the best analogy I can give you where they may be exhausted. They may just kind of be emotionally numb. They don't even have the energy or the neurochemical balance to feel pleasure and excitement right now, but they are always on. They're always listening. They're always waiting for whatever is going to come towards them to hurt them, which results in difficulty falling or staying asleep. And when you do get to sleep, it's probably not that good deep sleep that we all love so much. I'm going to have a whole bunch of side effects from that because the brain's not having time to rest and rebalance irritability or outbursts of anger. Again, even if you haven't had PTSD, think to a time when you've been really stressed and somebody has come up and said something that normally wouldn't bother you. But this time you just you didn't have anything else left to give you had no filters left. You were just irritability. Well, what's the function of that? What does the outburst of anger do? A lot of times it pushes people away. It sets a wall between you.  You know, I ask clients, what does anger do for you? Because it's different for each client. Difficulty concentrating.  Yeah, it's going to be difficult to concentrate because you're not filtering out the extraneous stimuli. You're on high alert, which takes us to hyper vigilance.  I love my children. I volunteered at their preschool when when they were little, obviously their teenagers now. But being in a preschool room with 15 little people who all wanted something had to go to the bathroom. We're putting the wrong things in their mouth and this and that and the other thing. I developed a huge appreciation for preschool and kindergarten teachers because I'm like, by the end, I was just over it. I was exhausted. Well, think about living like that day in and day out where you can't not pay attention to what every little kid in the room is doing.  What happened? It wears on you after a while. So understanding the function obviously is to protect the person. So we want to look at what are some of the triggers for it. And we're going to talk about some interventions later, but I do ask them what do you do now to help yourself fall or stay asleep? A lot of times I get answers that aren't necessarily the healthiest way of responding, but they are trying. They realize they need sleep. What triggers irritability and outbursts of anger? So we want to look at for that particular person. Are there particular types of things that just really get under their skin when they're under stress? How do you help yourself concentrate when you've got to and when we talk about concentrating, I'm not necessarily saying solve a calculus problem. I'm saying focus on driving from point A to point B and not get lost in La La Land or in the middle of a flashback. So we want to talk about what they're already doing to deal with these symptoms. And then once they understand the function of the symptoms, we can look at other ways to also help them deal with the symptoms. So how can you deal with this increased arousal? And here's a hint, cutting back on stimulants usually ranks right up there in addition to environmental interventions to help them feel safe. So other common symptoms of PTSD, anger and irritability, headaches, stomach problems, chest pain. Do these sound a lot like anxiety symptoms too? Guilt, shame or self-blame. Now I put assimilation here. If you remember back, golly, and I think it was Piaget, who talked about assimilation and accommodation. Well, whatever happened does not fit into Jim Bob's schema of what life was supposed to be like and what's fair and what's supposed to happen. So this event is out here and sometimes people will say, okay, I must have done something because life wouldn't do that. So what did I do to bring this on myself? Remember assimilation instead of changing your schema is changing your memory about what happened to make it fit in your schema so they can make it somehow fit into their just world belief. So that's another thing that we can talk about. Where is the guilt coming from? What do they have guilt for? Substance abuse. A lot of times that will come up and it may not be addiction. What we're looking at is substance misuse if they're drinking so they can drink enough that they pass out and get to sleep at night. You know, breaks my heart when I hear that and we talk about the side effects of the alcohol and all that kind of stuff. But I also don't want to tell people what they're doing is wrong because it's helped them survive until now. So I want to say, all right, I want to assess how they feel about their alcohol use or their abusive sleeping pills or whatever it is. And we'll talk about is that concerning to you and what else could we do instead? Depression and hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. Well, if you're feeling this way for a long time and when you're feeling this way two, three, six weeks is a long time.  You're having these flashbacks. You're not feeling anything. Nothing makes you happy anymore, which can lead to suicidal thoughts. So we want to be aware that sometimes clients who come in with what we would initially term generalized anxiety or depression with suicidal ideation may also have a PTSD component. Feeling alienated and alone. Well, going back to this last slide. Well, no, the one before that feeling detached from others or emotionally numb makes sense that you feel alienated and alone. It's not that you want them to go away, but you can't, you're not feeling the same thing. And feelings of mistrust and betrayal. When your entire world has been turned upside down, or the thoughts that you have about justice and fairness and how life is supposed to be. Then it's easy to have feelings of mistrust and betrayal of people around you as well as your own spidey senses. A lot of times people with PTSD have difficulty identifying what's safe and what's unsafe and what's a helpful intervention and what's not so helpful, especially in the moment because they don't trust themselves anymore. They trusted themselves when whatever happened happened and look how that turned out. So now they're questioning their own judgment. So triage. I said not everybody develops PTSD. Well, this is not a be all and all for identifying who will and who won't, but it does give you some indication. If the person was similar to the victim or they were the victim, then they may develop PTSD. So when we're talking about law enforcement officers who go on scene to situations and they see they have maybe they have a five year old at home and they see a five year old who was abused within an inch of his life or who drowned in a swimming pool. Well, they're really similar to that parent who is grieving and traumatized now. So they may feel similarly because they can imagine themselves so much easier in that position. Proximity to your safe zones, either home or work. Now this isn't as much true for military unless they get ambushed in their at their camp, but being aware that when things happen. If it happens in a place where you were supposed to be safe, your office, your, your car, if you get car jacked, your, your home, then it may be more traumatic because that schema. Remember, you had was that these are the safe places in your mind. You knew there are other places that aren't safe, but you believe that you had this safe bubble around wherever it was. I felt that way when I was in college, I went to the University of Florida during the murders back in 1990. And that shocked all of us, because the campus, everybody thought that was safe. I mean, you'd see all of us out running and jogging and headphones on in the middle of, in the middle of the night, 10 o'clock jogging down the street, because we felt safe we had that fallacy that we were in a protective bubble. So it's important to look at how close to this occur and it did it burst somebody's safe bubble because that makes them more vulnerable to PTSD and not just the normal progress. How much social support did they have after the trauma? Now this is interesting because they find that social support is crucial, most effective within the first 24 hours. After that, you know, it's still crucial, but people who get social support within the first 12 to 24 hours tend to fare better than people who don't. In the military, you know, this is not the time where you can be like, okay, that was really awful. Let's talk about it. And that might not be it. In law enforcement, a lot of times after a critical incident, they're told they can't talk to anybody because it's under investigation. The only people they can talk to are licensed clinicians that have privilege. But a lot of times they don't want to talk to us either because there's a stigma in their minds about talking to us. So we want to find out how much social support the person had. One of the things you can do when you're working with people who may be from law enforcement or whatever, or helping somebody who has PTSD is to help them understand that social support doesn't necessarily mean knowing all the details about what happened. Social support just means being there and going, whatever you need, I'm here. And maybe it just means sitting with them or calling and checking in on them once in a while. It may not mean talking about anything at all. So it's important for the person to understand and be mindful if they can of what they need. But it's also important to educate the social support others about what social support looks like. It's not always talking. If the person has a history of mental health problems, and I don't like that word, but if they do have a history of depression, anxiety, other PTSD incidences, substance abuse, then there is a greater likelihood that they might develop PTSD. And I want to make sure to hedge that as much as possible because none of these are truly indicative. There's just correlations here. And how many stressors have they had in the past six months? This comes up to that prevention on strengths-based interventions. What have they been doing? Were they taking care of themselves? Were they well-rested? Did they have their mental and physical house in order ahead of time? Or were they already exhausted, worn down, angry, anxious, yada-yada? Well, if you're already kind of struggling, then when life hands you lemons, you may just not know what to do with them. You may not have the energy to deal with it. You may not have the neurotransmitter balance to deal with it because they're already at a whack. So we want to look at these things and say, is there a likelihood that this person who's just recently experienced a trauma might develop PTSD? And why? Well, the reason is because if we can prevent it, it's going to be a whole lot easier to help the person than if we wait through that acute stress phase to see if, you know, in a few weeks the person develops PTSD. So let's look at prevention. So when you're talking to the client or the person, maybe you are a first responder. If you weren't the victim, how were you similar to the victim? How are people around you similar to the perpetrators? You know, that can be another trigger. What was or would have been helpful for people to do for you after the trauma? Because sometimes we're, oftentimes we're seeing someone a week, two weeks, six weeks later. So this is giving us an insight into what kind of social support might have been helpful because we can start doing that now. It's never too late. I mean, it's better to start earlier, but it's never too late. And what symptoms are you having? What makes each better? What makes each worse? I don't want to go into a whole bunch of detail about superfluous things. If somebody is presenting right after a trauma, I want to help them identify kind of what's going on, understand it, and develop some preventative and strengths-based steps that they can take. So like I said, you have prevention and resilience strengths, which are things they will do on a daily basis to stay healthy and happy. They have nothing to do with the trauma.  And then intervention and coping strategies. We want to look at, in the past, when you felt this way, what helped. And they may not have had PTSD before. You know, hopefully they haven't. But in the past, when you felt anxious or you couldn't sleep or you were depressed or feeling isolated, what has helped. So we want to look at the specific symptom and ask them what has worked in the past. And again, it may not have worked to fix it. They started doing it and all of a sudden they never had that symptom again. But if they started having a symptom and they did something and it helped for four hours, well, score. That's somewhere to start. We know that works at least a little bit. So how can we help you integrate that into your recovery plan now? And what makes these things worse? When you experience similar symptoms in the past and you've tried to fix it, what made it worse? What can you do to take back your safe zones? And how are you protecting yourself now? So we want to ask them, how can you feel calmer? How did the experience change how you view things, what's important to you, and how you will live your life now? Most people, when they go through a trauma, the effects are far reaching. It doesn't just affect one or two things. It affects how they interact and how they perceive the world and maybe even whether they, how they interact with their higher power and all that kind of stuff. So we want to know how this changed the person. Does that mean we have to unchange them? No, but we want to help them integrate this into what I call their life narrative. So they're writing a book and all of a sudden they come to this chapter where this awful thing happens. And how do you close out the chapter and what happens to you, the protagonist in the book, throughout the next few chapters? What do you see happening and how do you want it to play itself out? Encourage people to identify places and times when they feel safe versus unsafe and compare them. And brainstorm different ways to create safety at home, at night, in the car, at your office. You know, I told you my husband was in law enforcement for 20 years and I've got friends who are in the military. None of them will sit with their back to the door. And I just know that. So I automatically choose the seat with my back to the door. Understanding what makes you feel more comfortable. At night, you know, some people prefer and I'm one of them. I draw my blinds at night. I hate being able to not see out and know everybody else can see in. In the car, what can you do to feel safe? You know, putting on your seatbelt, locking the doors. How can you make sure that you feel safe when, when I was pregnant with my son, I had something called superventricular tachycardia, which, you know, is just a really long way of saying my heart would start racing for no apparent reason. So when I was driving, I learned to stay in the far right lane so I knew I could always get off onto the shoulder. Should I start having one of those episodes and it helped me feel calmer because the, my doctor was like, yeah, really the only way to fix that problem is to have the baby. I'm like, well, I got six months left before that happens. So that was one thing I did to help myself feel safer so I didn't feel, you know, trapped at home or at work. And what can you do at your office? You know, for us, we go through all the training about how we need to make sure that the client is never between us and the door. And we want to make sure any weapons, anything on our desk couldn't be used as a weapon. Have, have clients do the same thing, assess their environment and see what makes them feel unsafe and what could be changed. Sleep balances neuro, neurochemicals helps reduce cortisol and may help improve adrenal fatigue or the effects of having an HPA axis that's been on overdrive for a while because of the PTSD. In order to feel safe enough to sleep and to actually relax enough to sleep, what do you need to do? I encourage people to look at Feng Shui. They can get the, I think it's the for dummies guide.  But it's real basic principles. They can also go online and look at real basic principles. One of them, for example, is putting mirrors up. So in places where somebody may walk behind you, so you're never startled. That way you can always see people coming up behind you. And just using common sense, lock your door. Those are certain things that people can do anchoring.  What can you do or what can they do? So when they awaken, they can get in or stay in the present moment so they can get oriented, especially if you get awakened from deep sleep. It takes a minute to kind of get your bearings and that's really freaky for somebody with PTSD. With the clients that I worked with that were, had military history, sometimes for them keeping a small nightlight on in the room and we used the red light night lights so it wasn't as problematic for their sleep. And we also made sure that they had a bed, a bed, a light right beside their bed that they could turn on as soon as they woke up so they could see clearly what was around and get regrounded instead of having to kind of grope around and try to find the light switch on the wall across the room. Encourage them to have a safety item, whatever that is that helps them feel safe, and that can include installing alarms in the house, or even just having a dog that will bark. You know, dogs are great support, emotional support companions, if you will, for people with anxiety and PTSD. Pay attention to sounds, smells and sights in your environment when you're going to sleep.  So what can you do to kind of drown out, if you will, some of those sounds like the house creaking or the owl flying by or whatever it is. White noise machines are really helpful, earplugs, if they're willing to do that. A lot of people with PTSD are not willing to do earplugs because they feel it makes them more vulnerable not being able to hear. And that's cool. We want to see what works for that person. I don't want to push them in a direction that's, you know, even more stressful. What smells are around? Can you put smells in your environment that help you feel relaxed and prevent any that might make you feel stressed out?  So what things can you put in your room that can help you feel safe and relaxed? Encourage people to develop a sleep routine to let their bodies know when it's time to sleep. Find ways to release stress and tension. Maybe it's exercise, maybe it's journaling, maybe it's, I don't know what it is. Help people figure out how they can release some of that nervous energy that they may have and then create that sleep routine. And especially avoid triggers before bed like television shows, news, email. If email is one of those that's kind of weird, but for some, for some people it is a trigger. And we're also talking about anything that may trigger a person's sense of powerlessness, not necessarily just triggers related to the PTSD, because that can set them down a road. There is medication, they can talk with their doctor about it if they feel they need assistance getting to sleep. Guided imagery is a wonderful tool to help people relax and get to sleep.  I guess I could, but that usually doesn't put me to sleep. I know that if I start planning out my garden or some home improvement project I'm getting ready to do. I think I bore myself to sleep quite honestly, but it helps because I'm focused on that and its detail, not on the sounds that I'm hearing or anything else. And progressive relaxation, scripts are online, they can download those. Social support, encourage them to find friends, family, support groups, they're out there, and clergy that could be social supports. Have them of course look at what they've got in their arsenal right now and enhance those relationships. But these people need to be non-judgmental and available, and I say 24-7-ish, because you know nobody's available 24-7-365. But they need to know they have someone they can call at three in the morning if they wake up and they're in the middle of a wicked night terror. There are hotlines available, PTSD hotline, PTSDUSA.org. Those are both generally directed towards soldiers, there are other PTSD resources out there.  So take whatever the particular trauma was, Google it, see if there's some sort of hotline or support group. Most cities, counties, parishes have some sort of crisis intervention hotline. So even if you can't find a particular one that's geared towards a particular trauma, make sure they have someone they can call even if it's just the crisis hotline so they can reach another human being. Friends, anybody they reach out to needs to be empathetic and willing to help them meet their health and safety needs. And if it's calling the crisis hotline, you know that person can't do a whole lot, but they're going to be there and willing to talk, which fills that gap. And sometimes people will need somebody else to help handle the details, especially right after the trauma. So who can help you handle the details about what you need to do? And this is daily activities, getting the kids to school and doing laundry and everything else. Depending on the level of trauma, the person may not be planning that far in advance, everything just may be a jumble. So initially, after a trauma, it's good to have somebody who can help you do whatever you need to do to kind of get back into that rhythm of daily living. Some things you logically know are not threatening, but still evoke a startle response. So desensitization can help. Acknowledge the event. For example, if you're in an event where there was either a car crash or somebody got shot, you know, those are two really loud bang type noises.  Okay, well, logically, you know that that was a cabinet door not threatening, but momentarily it threw you back into that situation. So acknowledge the event. Be kind to yourself, not the, oh, I should not be getting upset over this. Well, you are. So it triggered that response. Let's just deal with it. Recognize the value of the startle response and remembering that when that sound happened in the past, you potentially were in danger and you felt helpless. So your brain's actually going, are you sure we're safe? Recognizing that is a huge step into accepting the bodily reactions. Identify times when your startle response might be greater. So if loud noises startle you, you know, what things, what environments might be more stressful and more likely to trigger that. Think about being in a library versus a restaurant. If you're in the library and somebody makes a loud bang. For most people, that's more startling than if they're in the middle of a restaurant and somebody drops a tray. Because in the restaurant, there's already a lot of ambient noise. So that doesn't change the decibels quite as much as being in a dead silent library and then all of a sudden pow. And identify ways to mitigate the startle response. Once you feel it, you acknowledge it, you realize you're not in danger, what can you do to help calm down? Take a few deep breaths. What is it that works for that person? Cognitive processing therapy can be helpful because it helps people ask themselves certain questions to identify whether their thoughts are kind of on point or a little off. So in the example of a rape victim, what happened? The person was raped. What's the belief? They may have beliefs like I will never be safe. It was my fault. All people like him, whatever that him is or her are bad. Okay. So we want to take one belief at a time and ask them, is the belief based on facts or feelings? And a lot of times it's based on feelings at this point because they're really feeling they're going from a gut instinct reactive point of view. How reliable is the source? Well, you know, the gut may feel kind of reliable at this point. Are you using extreme words? Well, I will never be safe. It was and I kind of interject in there all my fault. All people are bad. So we're using a lot of extreme words there so we can help people kind of rephrase it so it's more accurate. Is the belief based only on part of the picture? In what ways does the belief protect you? If you believe you will never be safe again. How does that protect you? Again, there's a purpose. There's a function. We just have to help help you figure out a better way to meet that need. How can you use your best, how can you best use your energy now? You know, do you want to continue fighting with that or what can you do that's more positive? Encourage people to engage in stress management activities when they're recovering from PTSD. And this is almost a second treatment plan issue. But you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. If they are already worn down and exhausted, they're going to have a hard time getting rebalanced and recharged. If they're draining the system with all these other stressors. You know, there's PTSD, which dealing with that's a full-time job. And then you've got your job and your family and whatever else is going on. So encourage people to look at their emotional health, physical health and their social needs. What works for them? Some people are not huge extra hearts. And that's cool. What do they need to feel supported, loved, you know, all that stuff. Trauma recovery. Help clients realize that there are a lot of things that they may need to grieve in the recovery process. They lost control in that situation. They lost a sense of safety, most likely. They may have lost some hope about mankind or about their ability to handle this. They may have lost some idealism. They may have a bunch of other losses that I don't even have listed here. Each one of those losses needs to be grieved. And, you know, just with any other grief thing, they need to go through the stages. Anger, bargaining. You know, some people don't really stay there very long. Depression and finally acceptance. So yes, you lost control.  Move on to depression, the hopelessness, the helplessness. Now, how can we write that into your narrative? So, you know, you didn't lose control over everything all the time forevermore. For each loss, you want to ask people, what about this makes you angry? And how can you deal with this anger healthfully? Anger is there to protect you.   How can you deal with it healthfully? Depression signals a sense of hopelessness or helplessness. So about what can you feel hopeful? And how can you help yourself feel empowered? Now, this particular situation, you know, there may not be a whole lot of things, but helping people move from the victim perspective to the survivor perspective is kind of where we're moving here. So PTSD can be from a single event or multiple ongoing stressors. Traumatic events can change people's beliefs about the world in an extreme way. Not just about this one thing, but about life in general. For some people, understanding the function of the symptom can help them desensitize to it. So when they feel it instead of going, oh my gosh, they're like, oh, this again. They can modify their beliefs and understand, okay, this is supposed to be protecting me. It's really starting to get annoying. This is what I can do. And it can help them make positive, mindful choices about what works for them, not only to help them feel energized and healthy and bolstered against the PTSD symptoms, but also to help them deal with the PTSD symptoms. If you enjoy this podcast, please like and subscribe, either in your podcast player or on YouTube. You can attend and participate in our live webinars with Dr. Snipes by subscribing at allceuse.com slash Counselor Toolbox. This episode has been brought to you in part by Allceuse.com, providing 24-7 multimedia continuing education and pre-certification training to counselors, therapists, and nurses since 2006.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session, we will discuss the question which says that the lines of regression of a set of data are x is equal to 0.51y minus 1.12, y is equal to 0.97x plus 7.15. The values of x is equal to 6.78. Find first part new value of x and y. Second part, coefficient B yx and B xy. Third part, standard deviation of y. Fourth part, the value of y for x is equal to 2. And fifth part, y is equal to 3. Now, before starting, we should know some results of regression y bar that is, secondly, the regression coefficient of y on x that is given by the formula r into, that is, is given by the formula over sigma y. Where r is the correlation coefficient, sigma y is the standard deviation of y. And next, for the regression equation on x, that is, y is equal to mx plus c, the regression coefficient of y on x, that is, B yx is equal to, let it be equation number 1. So, here the coefficient of x in this equation is m. So, B yx will be equal to m, that is, the coefficient of x in this equation. So, regression equation plus c, let it be equation number 2, y, that is, B xy of y in equation number 2, coefficient of y in, so the regression, this will work out as a key idea. We will start with the solution. Our equations of the lines of regression are given to us, but we have to find the mean value of x and y. Now, given the equations of the lines of regression, phi 1y minus 1.12 and y is equal to 7.15. Now, let us name it as equals, which is given in the key idea that I have given the equation number 1 and equation number 2, x bar, that is, the mean value of x and y bar, that is, the mean value of y. Now, also I am giving the given equations, let it be equation c, y is equal to, and to simultaneously equal to 12, this is a point of intersection of lines 1 and 2 of y bar, that is, the equal to 5 of y is equal to 5. Now, this is the equation number 1, equation number 2, phi 1y minus 1.12. Now, this is the line. Now, using this result, which is given in the key idea, the regression coefficient of x and y, that is, which is equal to 0.51. Now, from 2 equal to 0.97 x, which is given in the the regression coefficient of y on x, that is, so this is the coefficient of x, so this will be equal to 0.97. Now, using these results, which I have given in the key idea, now, v y x is equal to 0.95, which will be equal to, by the formula, sigma y over sigma x is equal to 0.51. So, this will be equal to r into sigma y. Therefore, into b x y is equal to 0.97 into 0.51 is equal to r into sigma y over sigma x into r into sigma x over sigma y, which implies into b x y is equal to 0.4947 plus minus 0.7 approximately. Now, as the value of b y x and b x y y both are positive, then r is also positive, y both are negative, then r is also. Using the positive value here, this will be 0.7 approximately. Sending deviation of y also given to us is equal to 2.6. Now, v y x is equal to 0.97, which is equal to r into sigma y by sigma x, sigma y over sigma x is equal to 0.97. Now, r is 0.7, sigma x is equal to 0.97, 0.97 into 2.6 over 0.7 approximately. Now, the line of deviation of y nominated value of y for the given value of x equation number 2, 0.97 into 9 is equal to 8.735, which is equal to, we are getting y is equal to the value of x for y is equal to 3. Now, the line of deviation of y gives the best estimated value of h for a given value of y. y is equal to 12 in equation number 1 and we will get the value of h equal to 12 in equation number 1, v equal to 0.51 into 12 minus 1.12, which is equal to 6.12 minus 1.12, which is equal to i is equal to 12, x is equal to, that is x bar is equal to 5 and mean value of r is equal to 12, v x y is equal to 0.51 and by regression coefficient v y x is equal to 0.97, then in the third part of y, that is sigma y is equal to 3.6 approximately, x is equal to 12, x is equal to, that is the given question, we have enjoyed the session.