Hi Xander187, I see you are a fairly new member here so welcome to PC and the PTSD forums.

What you are discribing is faily common with veterans that come home after experiencing combat as you are discribing and begin to struggle with PTSD symptoms. There is a program in place for the veterans that have the challenges you are discribing and it is "really" helpful in addressing the challenge that you are discribing. Often veterans obstain from reaching out for help because they fear the label of PTSD, however, this program really does help and is designed in such a way that the veterans, once they get involved with the program, begin to notice how much it is helping them verses their trying to resolve this challenge on their own which leads to feeling isolated and overwhelmed.

What is going to help you slowly make gains on not only being able to sleep, but to bring a sense of "inner" peace as well is through talking about it, grieving it along with others who can genuinely validate how deeply troubling the challenge is once someone finally steps away from that kind of environment. The sooner you reach out for help the better too because you definitely deserve the right support and validation for your challenge with this and it really does make a huge difference in your ability to slowly process it with others who "do" understand the way you are now deeply challenged because you are definitely not "alone" with this challenge.

When someone struggles with PTSD whether it is combat related or not, they do struggle with sleep for a while and often will need a medication to help with that until they work through the different aspects of their challenge to a point where they have finally processed it which is "gradual" and literally "one day at a time". I am sure right now you don't see that happening because you are struggling so much, however, I promise, you actually "can" work through this challenge and slowly make gains on it so you are not as challenged as you feel right now.