hey keep on writing. writing in itself is doing therapy and can lead to progress of helping you understand you and your problems and what youi can do to help yourself with your problems. 98% of therapy is the client doing things on their own to fix their problems. a person sees a therapist only one hour a week (or less if on monthly or biweekly schedule) and the client is on their own 167 hours a week. for that 167 hours the client has to figure things out for their self and writing can and is a great help in doing that which is why most therapists have their clients do journaling as a part of their therapy "homework" A therapist job is to be there for you to talk to which is basically you taking your problems out of you and on to the therapist so that you can see what the problems are and how you can fix them writing does the same - a person taking a problem and putting it outside themselves on to something (paper) so that they can see what their problems are and can fix their own problems. the problems were in your pocket on paper not bouncing around in your head thats all that important. its not always important that a client spend all their therapy time verbally spilling thier guts to a therapist. All that matters is the cleint is using ways to express themselves to then selves so that they can sole their problems and writing is one form of therapy that helps do that.

Hang in there and lots of luck and good wishes for your time in Iraq.