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Is Exposure Therapy a Good Treatment for Ptsd?
One theory is that one of the reasons why we're seeing more p t s d amongst modern veterans is that they can get fromike the battlefield to home a lot faster. One treatment that we know works for pe testi, but takes a long time to do and has to be done under strict supervision, is exposure therapy. What exposures therapy does is it overrides that by tapping into our forgetting mechanism. So you have a re balancing of your memory, because now that event,. or thinking of the event during war time, is now being associated with something that's benign.