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RE: Seeking Some Help. Do Traumatic Images & Memories Ever Go Away?
I'm pushing 60 now @steemmatt and my experience has been that neither the films inside my head nor the memories ever go away.
In time, however, I have learned to reframe them — with assistance from a really good therapist — in such a way that they feel less troubling and distressing. And maybe that's about the best we can hope for... I don't know, for sure. Part of my therapy included EMDR, which doesn't remove anything, but it helped me wrap a different framework around the trauma...
Very interesting info on EMDR. I hadn't heard of that before. I have a gut feel that peace will come when the memories are replaced with better ones and time fades for me not to care as much. I try to equate it to a bad breakup with an ex. Sometimes something like that can take a few years to dissipate before it becomes completely irrelevant or inert. As most of this is from a family member, it definitely has a lot more gravity, but I'm trying to approach it the same way.