Is Postramatic Growth Mutually Exclusive or Can You Have Both?

Ike: traumatic experiences produce p t s d, the symptoms. But those experences also can propel people towards growth eventually. When you focus people on growth and possibility, it's often much more effective than focusing on relief of symptoms. Our boldercrest work is based on we don't try to relieve people of symptoms. We focus more on post dramatic growth than the programme. And what we end up seeing is the symptoms decline - because growth gives people a sense of strength that kind of starts to overwhelm the symptoms. Even the symptoms that remain become things that people can manage better. They've got something more important in their lives thaf they're attending to. So the symptoms are