PTSD as a Disorder of Emotional Continuity: A Resonance-Based Perspective

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Autore principale: Alim ul haq, Khan
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contents <p>Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is traditionally understood as a disorder of fear conditioning, intrusive memory, or impaired extinction. This paper proposes an alternative conceptualization: PTSD as a disorder of emotional continuity rather than a failure of memory storage or retrieval.<br>Within the Aura-X Ω framework, emotional experience is understood as emerging from resonance between temporary neural activation and a persistent, biologically shaped baseline (Bold Memory). In PTSD, this baseline becomes structurally biased by traumatic exposure, resulting in exaggerated resonance to benign stimuli and persistent hyperarousal, avoidance, and emotional numbing.<br>Using everyday analogies—including malfunctioning fire alarms, driving on ice, and tinted lenses—this paper illustrates how trauma disrupts the smooth continuity of emotional regulation rather than creating discrete pathological memories. The model explains why insight alone is often insufficient for recovery and why physiological regulation and continuity restoration are central to effective treatment.<br>This resonance-based perspective challenges location-based and storage-centric models of trauma, offering implications for neuroscience, psychotherapy, emotional intelligence, and the design of non-centralized emotional AI systems.</p>
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spellingShingle PTSD as a Disorder of Emotional Continuity: A Resonance-Based Perspective
Alim ul haq, Khan
PTSD; Emotional continuity; Trauma processing; Resonance-based cognition; Aura-X Ω; Bold Memory; Affective neuroscience; Non-centralized memory; Human–AI interaction
<p>Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is traditionally understood as a disorder of fear conditioning, intrusive memory, or impaired extinction. This paper proposes an alternative conceptualization: PTSD as a disorder of emotional continuity rather than a failure of memory storage or retrieval.<br>Within the Aura-X Ω framework, emotional experience is understood as emerging from resonance between temporary neural activation and a persistent, biologically shaped baseline (Bold Memory). In PTSD, this baseline becomes structurally biased by traumatic exposure, resulting in exaggerated resonance to benign stimuli and persistent hyperarousal, avoidance, and emotional numbing.<br>Using everyday analogies—including malfunctioning fire alarms, driving on ice, and tinted lenses—this paper illustrates how trauma disrupts the smooth continuity of emotional regulation rather than creating discrete pathological memories. The model explains why insight alone is often insufficient for recovery and why physiological regulation and continuity restoration are central to effective treatment.<br>This resonance-based perspective challenges location-based and storage-centric models of trauma, offering implications for neuroscience, psychotherapy, emotional intelligence, and the design of non-centralized emotional AI systems.</p>
title PTSD as a Disorder of Emotional Continuity: A Resonance-Based Perspective
topic PTSD; Emotional continuity; Trauma processing; Resonance-based cognition; Aura-X Ω; Bold Memory; Affective neuroscience; Non-centralized memory; Human–AI interaction
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18490725