I do think it is possible to recover from PTSD, although I don't know if I'll ever be completely cured. It's taken years of therapy and meds, but I'm now by and large asymptomatic except if I'm suddenly triggered and that only happens a couple of times of year.

I've largely stopped dissociating. I don't have flashbacks anymore. My startle response is now normal - if anything I'm now on the calm side of the emotional response range. I still get nightmares, but it's a couple a times a month as opposed to almost nightly, and most importantly when I wake up I know they were just dreams as opposed to being stuck in a fog where I think the dream is real for anywhere up to a couple of hours.

I still have problems with a foreshortenned sense of the future - simply not capable of thinking long term, and I'm still unable to be physically intimate - that's my biggest hurdle to overcome, but I do believe I'll be able to overcome it one day.

I'm feeling cautiously optomistic for the first time in 6 years.

So yes I do believe recovery is possible - it's just incredibly hard.

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