Brad Schipke explains that untreated PTSD leaves trauma unprocessed and permanently stored in memory. Any trigger resembling the original event can cause you to relive it repeatedly. Without proper processing, the trauma persists indefinitely.
What happens when PTSD goes untreated? So basically what happens is that the trauma that you have experienced in the past stacks up and never gets processed, which means if it's never healed, if it's never treated at the root, that trauma will stay in your long-term memory until it's triggered. And then for the rest of your life, that will be in your long-term memory unprocessed, getting triggered again and again and again whenever a stimulus in the external world reminds you of that trauma. So that's basically what will happen is that if it's untreated, if you never go back and fully process the trauma, it will always be there. If you want to learn some more tips on how to fully recover from PTSD and some tools, Make sure to subscribe.
