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Why trauma symptoms can return after successful therapy

I finished EMDR six months ago and felt great but now my anniversary is coming up and all the old feelings are flooding back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healing is not linear, and certain triggers can temporarily reactivate old neural pathways even after integration.

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Worth thinking about

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