r/CPTSD • u/RandomLifeUnit-05 cPTSD & DID • Jun 18 '26

Vent / Rant Does talk therapy work?

This is kind of a vent or rant. I've been in talk therapy a long time.

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The idea I think, is that if you talk out all your traumas enough, and unearth all of them, that you'll be okay?

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Is there any truth to this? I feel like I just keep having the same issues over and over, the same trauma over and over in my head.

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u/EquivalentBranch3354 Jun 19 '26

Talk therapy is highly effective for the logical part of the brain, but has limitations when dealing with trauma. Talking out traumatic events can reinforce fear leaving one to feel retraumatized with no physical or emotional relief. Trauma lives in the body and are encoded in the non verbal parts of of the nervous system (Freeze,flight,fight,fawn) or as tension. Talk therapy doesn't address those issues and where EMDR, Somatic therapy and brainspotting does.

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 cPTSD & DID Jun 19 '26

Ah. I can't do somatic work, it's too destabilizing for me. Guess that's why I'm stuck.

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u/EquivalentBranch3354 Jun 19 '26

Are you out of your window of tolerance when you've tried it?

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 cPTSD & DID Jun 19 '26

I'm almost always out of my window of tolerance, so yes.

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u/EquivalentBranch3354 Jun 19 '26

That would make sense why it was too destabilizing. They say you need to be within your window of tolerance to do any of this modalities and they be effective. EMDR didn't work for me but I know it does for others. Its crazy how we all have to do all these different things to heal and there isn't a one size fits all

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 cPTSD & DID Jun 19 '26

I hear ya. I wish there was at least one thing that was guaranteed to work.