When I was working at the Behavioral Health Center of our local hospital as the alternative mental health specialist I mainly helped clients with PTSD.
One example: I treated a client who, without knowing why she was doing it, dragged her boyfriend’s La-Z-Boy to the dumpster. We later found out she was repeated raped, from the age of five, by her father-in-law on a similar chair. She had many of the symptoms of C-PTSD: hiding in a closet whenever anyone came to the door; blacking out and finding, two days later, that she had driven herself halfway across the country; violent responses to innocuous remarks — and so on.
We successfully, and with very little distress, freed her from all her symptoms of PTSD. It took about a year of weekly sessions. She was a courageous young woman who refused to take any medications to mask the symptoms. Her courage and refusal to take medications helped the effectiveness of the therapy.
PTSD is treatable. I’ve been treating it since the 1960’s. There are techniques not taught in the mainstream that effectively resolve PTSD. The cathartic elements of cognitive processing therapy, if addressed correctly, do not have to be painful. Instead of going for the most painful incident, incidents are approached on a gradient. Adding to that the well researched and validated Meridian Based Therapies or Energy Psychology and you have a reason to say “Why is PTSD still a thing?”
I hope this helps
