What? PTSD cannot be cured?

Patagonia's T may have been talking about this...

"Different forms of childhood abuse increase the risk for mental illness as well as sexual dysfunction in adulthood, but little has been known about how that happens. Scientists have now discovered a neural basis for this association. The study shows that sexually abused and emotionally mistreated children exhibit specific and differential changes in the architecture of their brain that reflect the nature of the mistreatment."
Specific changes in brain structure after different forms of child abuse -- ScienceDaily

Of course, not all PTSD originate from childhood or from abuse so that study is not necessarily relevant for all cases.

There are certainly changes in the brain that happen with PTSD, but its not a traumatic brain injury....though it can cause brain damage more or less by making the brain function in a less effective manner. I guess in the end traumatic brain injuries and disorders like PTSD can both cause brain damage but not the exact same sort of damage if that makes sense....at least that is how I understood it in the abnormal psychology class I took before dropping out of college. Perhaps that therapist meant something more like that.

Getting proper treatment ASAP, decreases the risk of it getting to the point of brain damage....but untreated the changes it causes in the brain become more defined and harder to treat. I would have liked to know that before I decided to ignore it for a few years and hope it would go away on its own.

Complex posttraumatic disorder never goes away. Simple PTSD sometimes does go away. Another thing that never goes away is societal judgements. Never tell anyone you know that you have it. They will look it up online and discover that it never goes away, and you will become a useless person to them.

There are people in my family and a couple outside that know I have PTSD, and they don't view me as useless...but I certainly wouldn't go telling acquaintances and people I don't know about it as they could have a judgmental view about it.

I feel the same way. I waited way too many years before I got help, well, I started falling apart if the truth be told. I also didnt realize I had PTSD or what it really meant to have it or its impact.

Its not something I would advertise either as there is still alot of stigma with it. Very few people know that I have c-ptsd, hell I didnt know untill a year ago. Lol