When it comes to retraumatization, stronger memories carry stronger risk. You likely first want to use a technique like this with medium-level memories and not memories that are strong enough to produce panic attacks.
In clinical settings where people are completely dysfunctional in their lives because they have strong post-traumatic stress disorder there’s a higher risk of retraumatization than for most memories that most people have.
When it comes to retraumatization, stronger memories carry stronger risk. You likely first want to use a technique like this with medium-level memories and not memories that are strong enough to produce panic attacks.
In clinical settings where people are completely dysfunctional in their lives because they have strong post-traumatic stress disorder there’s a higher risk of retraumatization than for most memories that most people have.
That’s true. However, it’s hard to know in advance how severe a trauma is.
I think the cases that motivate the advice to worry about retraumatization are mostly cases where it’s very clear that there’s severe trauma.