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    Relationship Supporter To Bf With Chronic Pain And Unmanaged Ptsd In Canada

    Hey all, It's been awhile since I have come online and checked out much of anything on here! Seems I sunk into a dark place of isolation for about 2 weeks or so. But yet again I have pulled my self out, started councilling again and am feeling pretty good. However, I need some help from some...
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    Has Anyone Ever Been Diagnosed With Hypersomnia?

    Lil-fighter I am sorry your are going through all this. Unfortunately my BF never made it to the doctor that day! Instead he slept until 4pm and unfortunately I had to be at work so I could not get him out of bed. My suggestion to you is that you keep looking for a doctor who understands...
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    My Boyfriend Won't Touch Me And Its Driving Me Crazy!

    Yes Winterwishes keeping busy is one of the only thing that helps! I draw and write A LOT!!! my bf thinks I should start selling some of my work, but I told him that I couldn't because it was mine and far too full of my emotions to let someone pay money to have them! I have a couple friends...
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    My Boyfriend Won't Touch Me And Its Driving Me Crazy!

    Midnightlady, My boyfriend suffers from PTSD caused by prolonged trauma from being a police officer and I suffer from childhood abuse, witnessing a horrible accident and a few other things. The worst part about my boyfriends PTSD is that he went almost 17 years without treatment so as they say...
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    Relationship Girlfriend With Ptsd Avoids Me - When Do I Give Up?

    Well looking at this from both sides of the spectrum, you are being treated very unfairly!!! If she is being honest then her disorder is completely untreated and she is being very unstable and hurtful! If she isn't being honest (which I hate to say but I think its very possible) then she has...
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    Relationship Girlfriend With Ptsd Avoids Me - When Do I Give Up?

    HopelessBoyfriend.... her condition absolutely does not justify her actions!!! I am a sufferer and trying to be a supporter as well. I don't know anything about this girls trauma but it sounds an aweful lot like how I used to be! My early trauma was sexual abuse, and let me tell you about...
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    Relaying My Feelings To My Partner... Need Advice!

    Muzikluvr, thank you for your input, my screen name isn't about me and wether or not I love him because truth be told, I do love him, I know this! My screen name was merely me trying to express that I want him to let me love him. He shuts down quite frequently and has these isolation episodes...
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    Relaying My Feelings To My Partner... Need Advice!

    Hey all, Umm so I need some help here! It seems I have lost all ability to say anythng about how I feel to my BF! And lately he's not making me feel so good! But how can he change if he doesn't know he's making me feel this way? This is really difficult, I have this fear that he, as a...
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    My Boyfriend Won't Touch Me And Its Driving Me Crazy!

    GRRRRRRR!!! Lastnight he point blankly told me that he felt great... yet he chose to watch TV til 4 am instead of joining me in our bed!!!! So frustrated right now.. I just don't know what to do! Is there something worng with me?:mad:
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    Relationship " Daddy Said I Am A Fxxxing Idiot "

    Hey Sunshine! I'm sorry your lil man had to go through that! It's not fair and was completely uncalled for! I was given a piece of advice on here once about how my spouse was speaking to me. Now I am not a 5 yr old but I do have a boy the same age and if I were you I would set out a very...
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    My Boyfriend Won't Touch Me And Its Driving Me Crazy!

    Simple, we definately are two of a kind because whenever my mind has reach its "enough" point, I try to do exactly what he does, but in turn I just end up sick to my stomach trembling in the bathroom all alone with him wondering whats going on! He told me that he thinks I need to see a T...
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    My Boyfriend Won't Touch Me And Its Driving Me Crazy!

    Oh Simple... its exactly like that for me! I too draw in a breath to say something and it gets caught and I swallow it, or I go to suggestively touch him and I withdraw! He asks me what my problem is all the time because he is sensing that I have something on my mind, but I cannot come out with...
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    My Boyfriend Won't Touch Me And Its Driving Me Crazy!

    Simple, I haven't tried much... I am too scared to! I have issues reguarding abuse and a lot of fear that it will all happen again! He gets this look on his face, I know hes just in pain, but my mind plays tricks and tells me that hes angry at me, that he wants to yell at me! So i do eveything...
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    My Boyfriend Won't Touch Me And Its Driving Me Crazy!

    I feel so selfish for posting this thread but its something that I trully need help dealing with because as of right now... I'm so unsure of everything! Ok so heres the low down, my boyfriend and I both suffer from PTSD, however the boyfriends symptoms are much more uncontrolled than mine...
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    Supporter 20 Years Of Love Gone In Half An Hour.

    From a womans perspective may I offer my opinion. I am someone who suffered childhood abuse myself, and that abuse was something that just kept going on and on for many years. Sometimes I think I am over it all and that no one can hurt me anymore! But then something happens, something reminds...
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    My Ability To Have A Relationship Is Gone. My Perspectives On Relationships Is Horrible.

    My biggest issue with relationships is that I always think that no one wants someone "crazy" like me! The thing is ... over the years I have realized that I'm not so crazy, a lot of people are the same as I am... i think once you have overcome your issues with yourself thats when you can truly...
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    Has Anyone Ever Been Diagnosed With Hypersomnia?

    It's true that its a dissaciative response to stress but the problem is that with my boyfriend its cyclical which makes me believe that there is more to it than that! He's seeing his doc today and asked me to write down what my concern was because afterall he doesn't really see what I see...
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    Has Anyone Ever Been Diagnosed With Hypersomnia?

    Thanks AlmostNotQuite! Have some more homework to do now!
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    General Shopping To Take Away Ptsd Symptoms??

    I feel your pain sunshine! My boyfriend does the same thing, and when I hadn't been diagnosed yet I was too. Shopping made me feel "normal" But it does start to get very worrysome when all of a sudden your family has no food to eat but you have a brand new TV. I know the feeling. I don't have...
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    Has Anyone Ever Been Diagnosed With Hypersomnia?

    I have been doing a ton of reserch on sleep disorders and PTSD. And there are a few articles out there that suggest that Hypersomnia may be a result of PTSD as well. I know I personally have boughts of insomnia when life gets stressful or when I have a particular trigger keep recurring. But my...
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    All I Want To Do Is Cry, But I Know That Makes Him Angry

    You guys are awesome.. thanks for letting me vent!
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    All I Want To Do Is Cry, But I Know That Makes Him Angry

    I have tried that, it seems the more I communicate with him the more irritated he becomes! I can't seem to get it through to him that I understand what hes going through but find it completely unfair the way he treats me sometimes. Thats why I leave the letters I write out sometimes... because...
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    All I Want To Do Is Cry, But I Know That Makes Him Angry

    Zipperhead, the problem I have with not being able to cry is that when I started therapy a long time ago I had a lot of anger issues, in fact before my diagnosis I was ordered to take anger managment classes... anyways after my diagnosis my therapist told me that I needed to figure out an...
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    All I Want To Do Is Cry, But I Know That Makes Him Angry

    Thanks Guys!!!! I guess my only saving grace is that when it gets too hard for me to handle and I cannot take it anymore I write a letter to him, I never give it to him but there has been a few times that I accidently left it out and hes read them! He will never tell me that hes read the letter...
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    All I Want To Do Is Cry, But I Know That Makes Him Angry

    friendlybadger, that is aweful to hear!!!! Big hug right back at you girl!!!! I just don't understand why we have to be a doormat for their emotions!!! I have prided my recovery on making sure that the feelings I have were not directed at anyone because I know that its not anyones in...
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