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So yes. One traumatic experience, one set of stuff to go with it? Or because you have PTSD from one thing, do you just have it permanently, so no matter what else comes up, you get thrown into it?

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I think it's kind of like kindling in BiPolar. If you have a series of untreated episodes it tends to make it easier and easier for the next one to occur and the liklihood is that it will be worse. I think the original PTSD makes the threshold for being re-traumatized lower. And then it is all reactivated. At least that is my experience. I don't have a series of different reactions to different triggers. As time goes on there seem to be more and more triggers from other experiences not related to the original trauma.

I don't know if that's everyone's experience. I don't have vivid flashbacks. It's more like overwhelming terror. So my experience may be different from other peoples.

I hope it's not permanent.