The answer is YES. Bonnie, I wrote my journals while suffering from PTSD. As time passed, and as I was able to cope and clarify, I transcribed my journals onto the keyboard. Eventually, I came away with my book Beyond the Tears. There is a poem in the book that I wrote when I was 15, called "The Paranoid and the Narc." It was not until I was 45 that I was able to interpret my own poem to its true meaning! Yes, writing is therapeutic for PTSD sufferers. But if you want to use what you are writing for general readership, you have to revise, revise, revise. For publication, you still have to have a coherent introduction, body, climax, close. The process of journal writing was cathartic, but bringing the book to publication was more like a job than a therapy. What is your goal for these writings? If it is for therapy, then it has to make sense only to you. If it is for publication, then it has to make sense to everybody and anybody. A combination of therapies can make you well, writing is merely one of them. Much love and light to you on your journey, Lynn