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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who has been living with PTSD since late teens (now in my late 40s) there is no retreat that could effectively treat PTSD in such a short amount of time. You need intensive weekly therapy and probably meds. It will likely take 6 months to a year before you can effectively deal with it. [/quote]
Off topic/dp. I have also dealt with ptsd/cptsd for decades. I think of it in recovery/relapse terms because it helps me understand it. Cptsd isn't in the DSM and I haven't met a therapist who believes in it. Ptsd is typically associated with a one time event, whereas cptsd is from chronic, continuous and/or multiple traumas. I recently heard of traumatic grief, which isn't about the loss of a loved one but, rather, what we lost when we were abused or harmed. The idea is to treat longstanding ptsd as grief and approach it from that angle. Just thought I'd toss that out. I may attempt narrative therapy/grief processing because I hate living in pain.[/quote]

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