"You will not, ever, ever, ever, ever, be 'over it'. Never. Things will never be just like they used to be. Ever. Sorry about that. But it’s the truth.
Now here's the good news:
You will get better. You will be better. Post traumatic stress disorder can be overcome. You will get your life back. Not the same one you had before, of course. That life belongs to who you used to be. You are not that person anymore. That’s the truth too: you are not the same person you were before.
Don’t worry if you find yourself going back over the same old thing, time and again. You’re not trying to scale the mountain by climbing its sheer face. While a hardy few may succeed, most of us won’t. We need to wind around and around the mountain in ever higher spirals. Engineers build roads that way, because it’s safer. The drive may be take longer, but what a view! Each time you circle the side of the mountain, you see it from a higher elevation, a higher vantage point. Each time you circle back to the pain in your past, you’re stronger. Each time you can see things more clearly, eventually you see what really happened to you. "
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