Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”

Stoicism is the pole that you cannot control the world, but you can control your reactions to it. It's hard work.

The other pole is that you cannot control your reactions, but you can try to control the world. This is much easier to fit into a consumerist framework.

A DNA molecule without an environment is just a glob of atoms. Information flows in both directions.

On a purely human level though, you should go find some veterans with PTSD and tell them they're just not working hard enough at being stoic.

Is it your take that PTSD symptoms cannot be improved through any action of the individual?

Is it your take that every person in therapy for PTSD so wasting their time?

What if PTSD therapy focusses on accepting things you can't control and sitting with the pain? That's how I work through anxiety, and depression. I know it will never be gone, I don't try and set expectations to live without anxiety, I just try and sit with it, and accept it.

Much of mental trauma is about acknowledging it, and learning to live with it. There is no cure for PTSD, even Ketamine is short acting, not a long term solution, and indeed Ketamine simply helps you sit with the suffering in a different light.