It has helped me to be detailed, more than I ever thought it would be. I think still less than the "gory" or unnecessary aspects to the nature of the abuse itself. Instead my details are more about what I did to try to avoid it, or how I felt afterwards, not so much the this and that. What has been helpful to me is that I feel when I talk about it more holistically, it takes a lot of the power out of it. If I can talk about, it's like I have bested it in some way-- see there, abuse and abuser, I don't have to keep it locked up inside. If that makes any sense to anybody else, I don't know.