Brad SchipkeFounder of Broken To Unbreakable

Why people plateau in PTSD recovery

15 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief video, Brad Schipke explains that the primary reason people stop progressing in PTSD recovery is that recovery is dose‑dependent: without sufficient time spent on genuine trauma processing, improvement stalls. He argues that most individuals do little or no true processing each week, even when attending therapy, because many therapists rely on generic talk therapy or coping strategies rather than guiding patients through deep trauma‑processing modalities. Schipke emphasizes that coping alone does not heal the underlying trauma and urges viewers to honestly assess how much processing they actually do each week. He invites the audience to subscribe and watch his longer videos for detailed, step‑by‑step processing techniques.

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What's the number one reason that people plateau in PTSD recovery? Progress in recovery is truly dose dependent. If you aren't putting the time in with processing, you're not going to see any results. And this is where we all have to be honest with ourselves and ask ourselves, how much true processing am I doing every single week? For most people, honestly, it's zero. Even when they're going to therapy, their therapists aren't really walking them through real trauma processing modalities. They're just doing generic talk therapy or they're doing some type of coping mechanism. But coping is not healing. You're not actually processing the root. So even if you think you're processing. A lot of times you're not. And if you want to learn how to do that, make sure to subscribe and watch some of my longer videos where I go into the exact specifics on how to do this.