Being an officer you know how to hold your own even though... But the hard part about this even though we as people who have endured conflict know how to handle ourself fear still gets the best of us.

CBT will likely be good as you learn the logical (I know this is unreasonable, I have training to protect myself and others) and the emotional side (but I am so jumpy and where did the nothing can stop me attitude go?) collide. You show it now. CBT helps sort it out and face it.

It takes time and understanding to get most of it all back on track. I can't swear it goes all back together as mine has not yet. But it is a lot better than years ago. Do therapy and try new things. Healing takes a very open mind. And it is amazing what you welcome after enough hell. I am into all the things that once upon a time I called hippy bullshit and these people are nuts. Funny it is doing wonders at making me whole again and sleep a whole night. I eat my words often now.

Best advice I can give is if you have not started meds for anxiety do not. You fight addiction while you learn to heal. Come here often. This forum saved my life. And I am not stretching it.