What is "RTM?" When I plugged the acronym into my search engine, the results were too diverse to trust. That happens allot with acronyms.

Good luck with it, regardless. Hope healing happens here.

RTM: Reconsolodation of Traumatic Memories

I hadn’t heard of that. Please let us know how you go. I wish you all the best with it.

It is a new one on me, as well. I hope you'll share the details and keep us posted on your progress.

Wow, there's something new for us out there. Good to know! Maybe I'll get mine reconsolidated. Writing a book about them really helped, following psychiatrist Vicktor Frankl's idea of how logotherapy helped him survive Hitler's Holocaust. Let us know how well this works, too, PMH.

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Well yesterday's appt turned out to be intake. I forgot that intake takes up all of the time. So I'll officially start in 2 weeks.

I'll tell you how it was from my sessions last year. The goal was to lower your feelings of fear, helplessness, and a 3rd feeling I can't remember, associated with a traumatic memory. The exercise is repeated as many times as necessary until these feelings are at as low a level as they can get.

In my sessions last year, I started out by picking a memory, then levels were taken of the above mentioned feelings. I picked a starting point, and ending point of that memory. The memory was going to be turned into a movie, so in my mind I visualized any movie theater I liked. I decorated it however I wanted. I imagined the the way it looked, the smells, temperature, etc. Then visualized the film room up at the back of the theater. Visualized myself sitting in the seat, ready to watch the movie. Then I flew up into the film room. I would start the movie of that memory, but I wasn't supposed to watch it. Instead I had to watch myself sitting in the theater as she watched the memory. The memory was sometimes in black and white, color, slower, faster....At the end I had to tell what myself (in the theater) looked like while watching the movie. Process was repeated as many times as needed. Then the movie, was played backwards at high speed and I imagined the memory and its effects undoing itself. Lastly, I visualized myself stepping into the movie screen, and picking an alternative, better ending than the one that was traumatic, and played the movie again with that alternative.

One memory took 5 weeks to get through, but I remember the process to be gentle and I felt safe going thru it with the therapist.

Thank you for the insights, PMH. I've been reading up on it a bit and have yet to find a reference older than 2017, but it seems to be shaking the PTSD world.

I'm looking forward to the updates.

I almost started a therapy like this several years ago but it was called something else. It was more than I could do at that time.

Wow! Go you!!