Thanks Mac. Writing is a form of therapy, so yes, exposing your trauma through writing about it does create a symptom outbreak, but at the same time, it also releases a part of your trauma, which is the outbreak, so when your mind comes back a bit, it will actually come back a bit further, ie. with less trauma than before you wrote. As you continue to write about every aspect of your trauma, your alarm goes higher for a short term, then it comes back further again, until such time as when a person has written and exposed every piece of their trauma, the alarm is nearly turned off, or back in the normal position again, thus you sleep again, have no nightmares, very little symptoms... exposure therapy is the name for just writing what you have above Mac. The best thing for us all is to write about our memories, our traumas, our pasts and present situations, as we ensure our longevity of our lives, and regain much of what we lose because of PTSD.

Yer... if I hadn't gotten PTSD to the point of no return, I would most likely still be in the military, as I did it because I loved the job, not because I had too do it.