Nic... bare minimum time frames are something like this:

- 6 months intense trauma therapy working through trauma
- 6 months further of just settling and coming to terms with emotion
- 2-3 years further learning how to manage PTSD through exposure and doing activities.

People keep wondering why I say one must be pushed hard to heal PTSD.... I wasn't kidding. You CANNOT have your hand held and heal PTSD, it won't work ever. You must push yourself, otherwise you will not heal correctly and will forever be battling constant issues. You must have someone who pushes you beyond any comfort levels you have, push you to find boundaries you never knew existed, then to show empathy as and when required. You must be allowed to rest at specific points, you must then be pushed hard again and again. There is a method to trauma therapy, very few therapists or physicians will do it because they are all afraid of legal consequences if something goes wrong. Facts are though.... without this method you will never get through and learn how to manage PTSD.