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There are two basic ways to cure PTSD.

One way is by counseling and therapy over an unknown period of time after which the patient is convinced that he should do something about it and then he makes a conscious decision to terminate his own PTSD.

The second way is quite obvious from the first way. It's for the patient himself to come to the realization that it's time to terminate PTSD. This might come independently, but that's unlikely. More likely it comes after a good heart to heart talk with somebody whom the patient trusts. After which the patient makes that conscious decision.

However, it is the result of a conscious decision on the patient's part, either way, rather than the work of the psychologist or the therapist. The therapist can only help in convincing the patient that it's time to terminate the PTSD.

The scars will remain forever.

However, they will fade over time to some degree if the patient is interested in having them fade.

Beyond that, the patient has to determine to what degree he wants to function normally in society and this is the real cure. The functioning in society.

In other words, there is no way to remove the trauma, the existence of the trauma in the patient's past. It will always have an impact on the patient. That is obviously not even a goal. The goal is to be able to cope with day to day life despite these traumas.

This also does not cure the symptoms of PTSD. Those symptoms such as difficulties sleeping and so on, may not necessarily be removed in this method. That aspect of PTSD, the symptoms, has to be handled separately.

This page deals only with the manifest symptoms of PTSD.

Actually, in some cases it is possible that when the patient decides to overcome the manifest difficulties relating to PTSD, the other issues the other symptoms will either explode or be released in a catharsis after the patient holds them in for some time in which case the patient will need a psychologist at that time. Or, they will fade enough in time so that they become essentially a non-issue.

Perhaps it is like a person who loses a physical part of his body such as a leg. The leg will remain removed, there's no way to undo that problem. However, the patient can learn to live with the situation over an extended period of time.