Sheepdog Tip of the Day, After Combat tip 84
But the most important objective of a debriefing is to sever, separate and pull apart the memory from the emotions, delinking the memory of the event from the sympathetic nervous system arousal. You want to make peace with that memory, so every time the puppy tries to blow through that screen door, and barks, "Gunfight? Gunfight? Where? Where? Where?" you stop and use the tactical breathing method. The idea is to patch that hole in the screen door, because if you do not, every time the puppy blows through, he makes it bigger, more ragged, and harder to patch.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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