The course of prolonged exposure therapy
I am in the very start of PE, Only went through the week of in vivo and the very first imaginal exposure. I am really overwhelmed and scared today, I cannot believe that I shared my trauma and I cannot believe that I am going back there go recount it again - and that I am going to listen to it as homework today
I feel both hopefull and agonized at the same time. The PE is 10-15 sessions. I wonder if I Will keep working with my therapist, who I really trust and really like, afterwards. For some reason I am really afraid to ask, I feel so dependent on the therapist right now and even though I know that it might be normal at this stage, I am really scared of the thought of being terminated after 15 session of this
If you have done PE for your PTSD, did your treatment terminate after this? I hope for a longer, integrative work afterwards. But I dont know if that is even doable and I can Only find descriptions of short PE courses, not what happens after
Also, please send me a peptalk - I cannot believe how difficult it is to face up to my trauma. I am not broken nor have I gone insane as I feared. But this is so brutal, even though I choose to engage in this myself