Hi Mandy,

No you didn't offend and you brought up a good point I think.
I believe there is huge difference in just being upset because some memories are upsetting for anyone, and actually suffering from PTDS. PTSD interfers with living you life, it is like being trapped in a dark hole or something. It is like they are reliving the trauma through flashbacks, nightmares, they socially withdrawl, have insomnia, are jumpy with anxiety. It had a huge effect on living your live normally.
Going through desensitization of those memories give them less power over you and when a stressful thing happens you just get upset like everyone else would without going into a severe state of mental distress. But those distressing memories have to be confronted which a lot of people find too distrubing to do, so they continue to be triggered by them.
My T , is brother and sister who are also T's have treated over 1000 people with PTSD, many war veterans who have been suffering from it for decades who finally get some relief after all those years when they used EMDR to desenitize the memories. This is exposure therapy that has been used for years, it works, but it is much harder to heal, and has less sucessful outcomes.