Assimilation is part of the human condition.
People talk about 'getting past'; a trauma, but the truth is, that you don't get past it, you assimilate it. Events become experience, and our mind will refer back to them with steadily more objectivity as time passes. the raw emotion that colours an experience gradually fades, but this can take years, and is replaced by a more detached sense of analysis as the mind reflects on what it has learned.
My trama was a complete mental breakdown twenty-three years ago. I was hospitalised for three months, off work for a year, and on medication for life. I came very very close to death by suicide as my life disintigrated around me. I had to teach myself how to type again, and thought that my writing which means the world to me, was lost for ever, but with time and a great deal of mental strength (partly inherited, partly learned) I have come back to 'normal' but it is an experience i remember every single day, and always will.
People's experiences are always unique and varied, but the common thread is the assimilation, the weaving of experience into the fabric of one's being, which means the mind has used it to strengten and develop itself, so in ,ost, though not all cases, a similar experience will be less damaging because they mind knows it has, and will again, dealt with the circumstance before.
With regard to having your thoughts nextqueen, that depends on a number of variables - what your epxerience was, how you dealt with it, and your ability to absorb it and carry on, so you may have your thoughts for the rest of your life - as will I.
It is part of what makes us who we are, so try to embrace the positive aspects, you did survive, even though you thought you would not.
Not for ithing is Nietzsche's famous phrase so often quoted - it's because its truth resonates today as it did then - "What does not kill us makes us strong."