I think I've pretty much recovered from PTSD. I doubt that the diagnosis is really active for me anymore. It has taken many, many years of therapy to get there though. But I don't dissociate anymore, I've worked through the traumas so that now they are just pieces of my history and I can mostly think about them without dwelling on them or reliving them in any way. They are simply a part of my history and don't hold the power over me that they once did. But the traumas started at age 5 for me and I'm now 49. I have only been able to feel pretty free of the PTSD in the past year.

On occasion something will come up that will trigger a reaction in me, but I have a skill set now for dealing with those times head on without dissociating or prolonged anxiety that I can use to get past those times without falling into a full swing crisis. It's been a very long road, but yes, I do think it is possible to move beyond PTSD.