Welcome Pieces - you're among friends here pull up a chair or take a knee. You'll find plenty of guys on the forum who served in the sand box.
Some of old Nam Farts prefer the chair, if I take a knee and I'll never get up.
*My following deployment, I don't really care to say what I did or was a part of*
It's not about what you did Pieces, it's about what IT DID TO YOU. The Beast is patient as it has plenty of time. You may try to ignore it but it is relentless. The GOOD news (TA DA) is you have found what works - talking with another combat Vet.
Thats what we do here - lean on each other. The shit that goes through the heads of PTSD people can be at times both lethal and mind boggling. There is a ton of reading matter and videos to check out.
Ba