Suspected 'American Sniper' Killer Eddie Ray Routh to Go to Trial

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4. He was trying a crude form of 'de-sensitivity training,' IIRC.

The idea behind it is repetition of the sounds imprinted at times of high stress/ fear/ etc. will lessen the response when out of the warzone.

Since the PTSD sufferer doesn't leave behind the warzone, but carries it inside, it's never over as one might think. In time, it can be put in perspective, but it can be triggered again.

The limbic highjacking occuring with PTSD is not cognitive, or so I've been told. It's hard wired. It's not relieved by such techniques unless under monitored conditions.

The brain is changed, and won't return to a pre-PTSD state, it's a life changing brain event(s). Going to the range was a self-help method, if one wants to be generous.

PTSD works in different ways in different people. The shooting at the range was at first thought to be an accident but the narrative appears to be that the man killed him for some reason, not yet stated.

At least that's what it seems like, I don't really know as I haven't kept up with the story and had no interest in the film, either...