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In life outside of being a soldier and going to war, does any therapist need to have experienced for example a rape, a mugging, a home fire, physical abuse in order to help their patient work through the ptsd and the trauma? I don't think so. Therapists are trained in the way the brain functions and have tried and true resources in helping an individual with their ptsd and trauma.

I've heard many folks say that if someone hasn't been through the same thing they went through then no one could possibly understand or help them. Personally, I don't think that is 100% right. People who have empathy and compassion, people who can draw on other personal experiences that might give 1/5th of the same kind of feeling and emotion one is going through can certainly assist and be helpful as therapists who are well trained in working with ptsd and/or trauma can also help.

Everyone's experiences are their own to feel. No one can crawl into our minds and our bodies to experience exactly what we experience. Many can have similar responses to similar experiences but we still cannot know exactly how it make another feel or think.

If you must talk in order to heal, then it is never a burden to listen to the horrors you have experienced and are trying to heal from. Granted, not everyone is in the place of being able to listen or lend a shoulder or help with the outcome of what you have experienced. But a trained therapist certainly can teach you the tools you need to help yourself.


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