Oh Yes, Dr. Clair Weekes book was awesome! And, it talks a bit about the method I went through. Allowing feelings to happen and not adding more feelings or thoughts to them help them slowly dwindle. It's like the tide going out on the beach. Adding thoughts and feelings to what you are already experiencing is like the tide coming in, it intensifies it. Also figuring out what your feelings are really trying to tell you, because we don't feel for no reason even if we don't know why at the time. That's part of what the therapy relationship helps you do.

Also, having a relationship with someone who is very calm when you are not helps calm you down. Being with my super chill T for so long has helped me absorb some of his chill. I think they call it limbic resonance or attunement. Like when you play one string on a guitar just right and the other strings make a sound too, harmonics.

I can understand the idea of 2 years may seem too long for you. I remind you; however, that you are not me nor I you. I have a bad past and PTSD, and my problems stem from my foundational problems. The really bad attacks only lasted a month and a half. Once I found someone to talk to and help calm me down, I did start calming down. It was a time consuming process figuring out what the real reason I was feeling the way I was. For me it was shame, and I fought against it for a long time. Once I could feel the feelings and let them be what they were, they started to subside.