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The reason trauma-focused therapies focus on
trauma, is that one of the most significant
problems that people with PTSD have is that
they have learned to avoid thinking about the trauma.
And they'll go out of their way to avoid
thinking about it or talking about it.
And as a result of doing that, they haven't
been able to sort of process through that
trauma and put it away, put it on a shelf.
So that trauma is never going to go away.
It's never going to stay on the shelf.
But through doing trauma-focused work,
a person learns how to interface with the trauma,
to think about it and to talk about it
so that it's not sort of taking over their mind
all of the time.
They can put it away and then they can
bring it out and deal with it for
periods of time, but it's not always overwhelming them.