no I have never tried and never will try prolonged exposure therapy. short version this is picking something that upsets and makes you panic, have night mares and flashbacks and expose yourself to it for seconds, minutes to hours...

example if you get bit by a dog, then being around dogs makes you have panic attacks flashbacks and night mares, sit in a room with a barking growing teeth baring dog for hours on end having panic attacks, until either you pass out or you go numb and no longer care. then you do this the next day and the next and the next until you can sit in a room with a barking, growing teeth baring, nippy snappy dog the same breed that bit you until you no longer respond to it.

no not my kind of therapy..I would rather learn to manage my panic attacks nightmares about being abused, work related witness to a crime and huricanes with out subjecting myself to being reabused, re witnessing the same crime situaitons and sitting through hurricanes. I choose talking with my therapist, medication and stress reduction tools like medication and breathing exercises with out the retraumatizing factors.