Repeated activation of the prefrontal cortex through truthful reporting of experiences can lead to a more coherent understanding and potentially resolve stress.

“the hypothesis that seems to be the most likely and indeed has the greatest weight of evidence for it is that when people accurately and truthfully report an experience even if that experience is a stressful and traumatic one the repeated activation of the prefrontal cortex that occurs during that truthtellah a sort of runaway positive effect in the sense that it creates a more coherent framework and understanding of the stressful thing that happened right so all that discombobulation and that lack of coherent story that then leads to lack of coherence in terms of one's autonomic function so underlying stress and confusion about who's responsible that does seem to be resolved or at least partially resolved”