She told me that with PTSD, the patients can learn to manage the "PTSD episodes that come up" better and better to where they can manage their lives better as well. She did agree that my brain has "changed" and I will always have PTSD. However, I will learn in therapy and time that I can get better and better and "controlling" it.

This "self love and self soothing" I talk about alot unhappyguy is "very important" to develope. It is making sure you set aside a part of yourself that recognizes these "flareups and episodes" and comes in to remind self not to "feed into" the strong emotions and anxieties that come forward. I talk about the "after" alot, and that is always when the "learning about healing" takes place with PTSD. So what I mean by that is that often when a "trigger" takes place what happens is a PTSD episode takes place. The episodes can have different strengths to them and I have also talked about the "wave". The episode comes in a "wave" where it rushes in, crests and then slowly receeds. What I have learned about that is that unfortunately we cannot "stand in front of the wave and stop it", we have to learn how to let it come forward, crest, and receed, "then" we can take time to think about what it means, validate it and say "yes, that did happen, it comes from this bad experience and hurt, and I was reminded of it, but it really is not happening the same now" and each time that is done, when the wave comes again from another trigger and episode, it is "weaker".
Eventually, the overall goal is, and it does happen, is these waves slowly turn into more of a "ripple".

Each person is different depending on their personal history unhappyguy. But if we develope this "self caring awareness" we learn to "not self punish and feed into these episodes which can make them stronger". We instead learn to help our brains calm down and make "gains" and we do begin to slowly feel better and experience longer periods of "emotional balance".