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I would say all of the evidence-based psychotherapies
for trauma-based situations involve talking
about the traumatic event at some level,
either talking or writing about it.
You would expect to spend some time revisiting that memory,
but it's done in a really specific way.
We know from the research and from clinical experience
that if you do it in a very specific way,
it maximizes your chances of recovering
on the other side of things.
So, the treatments are all very structured.
They have very specific ways of talking about the event
and working through the event, and these ways
have been shown by lots of research to be very effective.
The effectiveness happens pretty quickly, so we know
that you can imagine getting out of treatment
relatively quickly even though that might be hard to believe
when you're on this end of things looking at how much
this traumatic event is impacting your life.