PTSD is a cover all label that has many reactions in it...

think of it like having a cold....a person can have sniffles, or have a cough, or have a sore throat, or have a headache... you can have them separate or together in any number of combinations. but all those things are thrown into the label called a cold.

a cold is something you can manage and it goes away but then maybe you sat next to someone who was coughing or what ever, but some how you end up with cold symptoms again...its the same virus causing the coughing, sniffles, sore throat, but even after you got rid of it an event happened that caused your body to have the cold virus inside you again. some people have more problems with a cold then others depending upon their own individual body immune system, self care, diet, exercise...

well PTSD is like that...its a group of symptoms/problems thrown together. depending upon your own body, coping skills, the way your own brain works dictates whether you are going to be affected by those symptoms/problems that are thrown together under the category of PTSD.

Example

for for a long time what causes me anxiety /being scared/ nervous is loud bang noises. I know thats because I witnessed someone getting shot. but once I learned more about guns, learned its not guns that harm people its the person pulling the trigger, learned gun safety and learned how to shoot them, then getting a gun of my own, hearing gun shots no longer cause me to be scared nervous. does that mean Im never going to be scared, nervous ever again no.

my children are now old enough for eating table foods. one night last week my daughter was eating diced bananas pieces. bananas are soft and squishy but one chunk escaped down without her squishing/chewing it and she started to choke. I kept calm and helped her with it, but now every time I sit her in the high chair and set something in front of her I start getting nervous/scared/ afraid its going to happen again...an event happened which resulted in my feeling these feelings.

does that mean I will never be cured of PTSD no. you can be cured PTSD and then something else happens so you get a new set of PTSD symptoms/problems from a new event, just like you can cured of a cold and then a new event happens that causing you to have a cold again.

until steps are taken....like in the gun situation, gunshots will never again cause me to have anxiety because I took the steps that was needed for me to not keep going through PTSD with guns.

I am now taking steps with my daughter when she's eating so, slowly my PTSD over her learning to eat table foods is going away, and I will no longer be going through anxiety every time she eats.

my suggestion if you are having PTSD symptoms (anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares, flashbacks what ever your PTSD symptoms are) talk with your treatment providers they can help you over come this so that what ever is causing your symptoms will not continue to cause you to have those PTSD symptoms.