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Am I going to get re-traumatized?

Dr. Kristy Center, Clinical Psychologist, answers common questions about PTSD.

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Am I going to get re-traumatized?

Am I going to be worse off than when I started?

And what I just like to tell them is that, you know,

you're already having these memories come back

every day, anyways, or very often.

They're coming up in your dreams,

they're coming up in your daily life,

you're having reminders out of the blue.

And what we're going to do is instead of having them

out of the blue, we're going to take them

and deal with them head on.

So we're not adding anything, we're just going back

and revisiting something.

And it's a memory, it has already happened, it's in there.

We're not going to erase it,

but we can help you reduce the amount

that it has control over your life.

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