I agree that PTSD, whether it is family-of-origin or military (or any other traumatic event) is complicated. I found help for mine in the past ten years with a psychologist who specializes in military personnel. But, as he explained to me, PTSD is relative to the person suffering from it. A soldier's PTSD is no worse than someone suffering from child abuse, TO THAT PERSON. I agree that talk therapy is the only way to put it to rest. You have to talk it to death; cry, scream, beat the furniture (which I have done more than once), and expel it from your mind. It might always be there; you won't forget, but you will learn to live and cope with it.