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Most people that have PTSD

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have experienced many trauma events

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over the course of their life.

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If you experience more than one trauma,

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then Written Exposure Therapy might still be

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a good treatment for you.

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You and your therapist will try to select the trauma event

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that's most bothersome to you,

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maybe that you have the most intrusive memories about

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or the most nightmares about,

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and that's the event that you'll select

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to be the focus of your treatment.

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We only ask that you stay focused on that specific event,

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rather than switching back and forth between different events.

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Other than that, usually people feel that

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even when they've had multiple trauma events,

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that they get benefit from this.

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What they learn from that one event

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tends to generalize to other events

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that they've experienced in their life.