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Maybe it's similar to addiction, in that getting rid of an unhealthy addiction is best served by replacing it with a healthy addiction: if we feel ourselves like we are obsessing about the past, maybe we just need something else to obsess about. Or more activities in the present that we can think about instead of events in the past. Seems to me the way PTSD becomes complex PTSD is simply the way that our own reactions end up intersecting with new traumas. I think the only way to fight it is to work towards giving ourselves more positive experiences to counter the effects of the old trauma wounds. Give ourselves things to positively obsess about.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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