Yasmin Shah

About

I work with adults whose memory does not behave, and who have organized a lot of their lives around managing that quietly. My clients are usually competent, well regarded, and privately spending a lot of energy on containment. Flashbacks are the most disruptive expression of it and they are not the only one. The same underlying mechanism produces sudden dread, nights that go wrong without explanation, and reactions that seem wildly disproportionate afterwards. We treat the mechanism rather than chasing each expression separately, which is why improvement in one area usually brings the others with it. I have spent a long time on this particular problem and I remain struck by how effectively people conceal it. Containment is expensive and largely invisible. If you have been containing something for years, get in touch. One mechanism explains several apparently separate problems. Containment costs more than most people realize it does.