"Journaling provides a vehicle which allows servicemembers and Veterans to begin to draw out their feelings and memories without the perceived risk of speaking about them," said author Michael Cain (no relation to the actor), who teaches journaling on a volunteer basis at Fort Bragg.
Cain's workbook for the course is not yet publicly available, but he said on his own blog that he hopes it will be more widely available soon.
Cain was also interviewed back in October by the Fayetteville Observer, where he says that journaling is not, as it is so often characterized, only for women. "The point is to get it out of their head rather than to have someone analyze it," Cain told the Observer. "As long as it's locked in their brain, it's going to fester."
Have you tried writing a journal (or even a blog) to explore your feelings about PTSD and your trauma? We'd love to hear your about it.
My personal experience with journaling is that if I kept writing down the "obsessive" or "reliving" thoughts....I would be writing forever. I had to stop thinking. After a while, because of the adrenaline/cortisol pumping into my heart/brain, that wasn't too difficult..
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