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The goal of PE isn't to make the memories go away

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because there's nothing that's gonna take them away.

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They are part of your experience,

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and they're part of your history.

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The goal of being part of this treatment

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is to not have those memories have such a hold on you

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so that you can live with the memories and you can

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engage in your life even with the memories that you have.

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Prolonged Exposure is basically a way to get you used to,

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to the extent possible, used to having the memories

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and experiences of the worst thing you've ever been through,

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and so that these memories and experiences become

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very burdensome and painful as opposed to

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overwhelmingly debilitating and functionally impairing.

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Notice I didn't say we make them go away,

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and I didn't say we make the bad memories good.

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We take horrible memories and make them bad memories.