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Does it ever go away?

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I have a very simple question. Do you ever truly get past PTSD? I stopped therapy, EMDR, because it was WAY too exhausting. I just want to know if the disorder ever truly goes away.
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IMO...if you haven't dealt with it by going through the Journey to Heal...it'll still keep popping up to bother you. And, I guess it depends on your trauma, and how resilient of a person you are, and your support system...and so on.

Are you on any meds now??

Maybe you could work on just CBT Therapy...instead of delving into the trauma therapies if you don't want to go there.

There are others here who have had PTSD for years...still struggle with it, but their down times are not as long as before.

Welcome to DS!
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If by getting past you mean that PTSD stops affecting you completely, no I dont think it ever does. But I hope only in the same way that anything really bad is never really totally forgotten. I think it is possible to get to a place where the symptoms stop being disabling and become bearable so they do not stop us leading happy and productive lives. (Counselling and meds are helping me a lot toward this aim.)
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Everything I"ve lived or read or heard from others is that it never goes away. YOu just learn to live with it. The actual structure of your brain has been changed.

That said, that doesn't mean there's no hope. You learn to adapt, the symtoms typically fade, and you learn to do the little grounding things that help you get past them quickly when they do pop up.
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