Introduction & Theoretical Background
The Stimulus Discrimination audio exercise is taken from the Psychology Tools For Overcoming PTSD Audio Collection. It is designed to help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to ‘retrain their brain’ in order to attend automatically to signs of safety. The Stimulus Discrimination audio exercise is designed to accompany the Stimulus Discrimination worksheet. Individuals with PTSD are guided to first attend to similarities between an event which has triggered a fear response and their memory of their trauma. They are then guided to systematically attend to differences between what happened in the past (‘then’) and what they can experience in the present (‘now’).