My concern JD is telling people who struggle that "there is no cure" as you have said.
I know how bad I was, so crippled with it and I would not have faired as well if I was told "get used to it because there is no "cure"", no that would have not served me well at all when I was in a dangerous state of mind with it.

I asked my therapist on different occasions about being able to get "better" or is there really "no cure". He told me that we have been proving the plasticity of the brain and how we are capable of healing in ways we have never before realized. So he is not one to sit and tell me that I wont get better and continue to make substancial gains on it to where I can function much better. I make it a point to share what I have been learning with others and yet at the same time validate the challenge.

So, lets think about it this way instead. I raised a daughter with "dislexia" and that means her brain is "never" going to learn like the average "normal" brain. However, that doesn't mean she "can't learn". She will always have a brain that is dislexic and she will always have to work around that, however she does really well, infact, better than many who may learn the "average normal way".

With PTSD there is often damage in the hypocampus and the amigdyla is also comprimised, however, it has been proven that "healing" can take place and the brain "can" function and continue to learn and adapt. Typically the person does remain more "sensitive" however they can "learn" to recognize it and work around it as well as reduce the stress that they are challenged with resulting from the PTSD.

Also one person may not have it as bad as another person does, they can see this in the new technology they use to see parts of the brain we could not see before.

People have a tendancy to "believe" JD, so if you tell someone "there is no cure" it really isn't fair, because there are things they can learn so they get more control over it so they can be productive, verses believing the PTSD will "control them" and they are forever just "victims".

My daughter would have believed she would never read or spell or learn in meaningful ways if I looked at her and said there is no cure, which ofcourse there isn't, but she could have taken that wrong. With time and her learning how to "learn" inspite of the difference in her brain, she did actually "learn" and does very well as I mentioned.

No question about it though, it takes time to learn how to manage PTSD so that you can function better and overcome many of the debilitating effects that can take place with PTSD.

As I mentioned, I still have days where I struggle more than other days, so I know that I am still challenged. However, I have gotten considerably better than I have been in the past and I feel I can even learn to do better. If you spend too much time thinking about what you "can't do or be" then you are only going to "reinforce" those challenges. I find that "self observing" is important, to catch yourself when you begin to have negetive toughts, to catch yourself when you think you "have to be angry". to catch yourself when you have to problem solve so much at once, and learn to say "no" to these responses, that you "can" actually have a choice. It is just like everything else, we can learn to "do" gradually. No, it isn't a "just' it is more of a conscious effort now, but this conscious effort "can" get easier to accomplish with time. That is what I have been noticing. It may always be a more "conscious" effort from now on with me because I suffer from PTSD, but that effort can decrease in being so challenging to where I am slowly learning control again.