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Post-Treatment Relapse Plan

Return of symptoms is not relapse

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End-of-trauma-treatment relapse-prevention plan. What return of symptoms means (usually a life stressor, not treatment failure), and what to do.

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Return of symptoms is not relapse

Symptoms may briefly return during major stressors. That's the nervous system remembering — not the treatment undoing.

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