Very good accounting of the process of healing there, imo.

Trauma changes your brain...and the longer one takes to begin to work to counter it, the more likely the more bad habits of coping and otherwise illogical thinking will set in.

It does seem cyclic, in a way, imo. You almost feel you are back to square one, but you aren't really because you do have more "real" knowledge. It's as if you are peeling an onion...and you can see where you were and where you are "nearly" in the same place but not.