The thing with the EFT is, if it worked at all... then it works. And it does. it did, so it does. The thing is though, there's a forest of trees, so while you got results with one of them or a couple, let's say, there are plenty more in there. The experts say, and I completely trust this, based on experience, with EFT, once you find some of the core 'trees', and whittle them down to nothing, then the whole forest comes down. Nice analogy--Well, in EFT terms, that is. Yes, the affirmations will make you feel worse, since guilt is deeply rooted in the way the self attacks the self, with PTSD. (For this reason and others I object to the way people simplistically teach and practise "Law of Attraction".)You might want to read the post I just made on the EFT forum, I was thinking about you...

EMDR might be very good, in that you might find a practitioner, even perhaps among the mainstream medical scene. it does 'rewire' the connections.

What is amazing to me about Ho'oponopono is that when I've done it  on an issue that is causing trouble right them,like a potential argument or some such, within literally seconds I've seen other people changed. really changed. And myself too--the whole scene becomes softened, and there's a feling of compassion for self and others. I could just do it in my head, silently,and whatever was presenting on the outside would be immediately de-fused. I don't think it's easy -however- to go from where you are, into the hard-core forgiveness.  But maybe I'm wrong. 

Easier to work at the energetic levels maybe. As you have guessed, I like EFT. :-) (I never found acupuncture did much for me though--too invasive; gross level. EFT does work, but you have to find the language, the statements, and when you do, you connect to a sort of  palpable 'click'. It does not always come easy, because with PTSD, the self-defense patterns are so deeply embedded and confused that parts of the ego see any sign of help as a threat of ultimate annihilation. Maybe that resonates as 'true'. If so, you might be able to tapp on versions of that statement--to get at the subconscious blocks.


But one thing I have noticed from my own process is, the last person I had left to forgive was -much to my surprise- me. I'd done a lot of work on everything/one else...and thought I'd done it all.

About anger--I have found that as well as doing water fasts, liver flushing really helped me let go of a lot of that. I'm not sure what my experience with a water fast would have been without the liver flushes before; many of the masters asserted that the water fast IS a liver cleanse and a kidney cleanse as well--but eight days wouldn't likely touch that stuff. Even at 29 days for me -- my first water fast- I could tell I was ready to enter another level of cleansing/healing, but broke the fast anyway. I also did a couple parasite cleanses, before the water fast.

I think it was my second liver flush--did the one with Epsom salts and grapefruit and oil, during which I could virtually watch movies- like film strips unspooling frame by frame, in my mind; of traumatic scenes in my life, at the same time as I felt stones and crap move down into the common bile duct. Amazing. I would feel flashes of anger, and then- release. I am now 100 percent certain that anger stores in the toxins that clog the liver, and then the gallbladder. The liver is a huge piece of cleansing. Might one long water fast 'do it all' when it comes to the physical clearing of sludge and all that clogs us? I don't know. But I mention all this because perhaps it has some relevance to what you are dealing with.