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Staying With Someone Who Also Suffers With Ptsd...

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I am staying with someone who also suffers with ptsd i dont know if it was a good or bad idea to stay with this person ?

at the time i thought it was but i am starting to wonder if i did make the right decision or not by staying with this person because this person has caused and created a get deal or stress and anxiety for me ...

what does everyone else think how should i deal with it?
 
If I could leave my self I would run far, far, far away from my PTSD. I would leave myself, but I can't.

I have no idea what you could/should do. I don't know your situation.
 
ask your self why are you staying with this person?
is there a reason?
and maybe staying/living with someone that has ptsd as will as your self might be or might not be a good idea its a good question to ask everyone here on the form...
 
i am currently staying with someone that has ptsd and i thought by staying with this person that theyd be understanding of what i was going through and id feel safe and comfortable but this person seems to cause and create my anxiety to raise and causes me to go into a panic being around them talking to them and other things besides that i am thinking now it wasnt such a good idea...
 
Do you have PTSD or anxiety or depression yourself?
 
So you mean by staying with them that you are living in their house, as opposed to actually being in a relationship with them?
 
Okay you have PTSD and are staying with someone who has PTSD and it is not working out?
 
Yes i have ptsd and so does the person iam staying with and i dont feel its going the way i thought it would...
 
only another person with ptsd would understand what its like to live with ptsd someone that doesnt have ptsd or doesnt know what ptsd is wont understand what your going through like someone with ptsd would...
 
Not necessarily so - someone well trained as a trauma therapist will understand what PTSD is like. I think it is rubbish that people cannot understand what PTSD is like. Do most or many people have the ability to understand PTSD, possibly not.
 
I guess it depends partly on how symptomatic you both are currently and where you each are individually with regard to therapy and healing, but I think unless you both have strong boundaries with each other from the outset then it sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.

Understanding is one thing, but with it come the risks of enabling each other's behaviours and also possibly moving towards codependecy with each other.

this person has caused and created a get deal or stress and anxiety for me ...
Can you explain more about what they are doing to cause this?

In what ways are you both dealing with your PTSD independently of each other?
 
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