The Best PTSD Treatment You’ve Never Heard Of

60% effectiveness rate, up from 30-40. “a novel approach called Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories”

“The technique is actually a neurological intervention that takes a traumatic memory and restructures it using several exercises like visualizing it as a black-and-white movie. The revised memory updates the original — reconsolidation.”

“ RTM requires only three to four sessions, totaling about five hours, and involves no drugs or re-traumatization. Therapists can be trained in three days, and treatment can be conducted online. Best of all, the effects last. As one veteran put it, “Who knew that you could retrain your brain in a few hours, without medication, to remove yourself from the traumatic events that have been crushing you and making you wish you would just die?””

This is based on the same premise as the "writing cure." Lepore & Smyth (2002) have a good volume on it. (https://books.google.com/books?id=3GeSRAAACAAJ)

I've read the literature on the writing cure and it appears to be very effective for most subjects.

An interesting side topic is treated in "Why Doesn’t the Writing Cure Help Poets?" (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1037/1089-2680.10.3....)

I've had some flahsbacks after a recurring confrontation at work. Started using body mapping on youtube, a form of self hypnosis, where you let the body do the work. It's true, you don't have to relive the memories, although some do come back which might be unrelated.