amethist
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I was wondering if isolation for all but a select few is common among sufferers. As this has come after a few bad weeks for my husband.
Yesterday my husband had more bad news, and it came while I was out.
His friend who he has know for a very long time has been ill for almost 2 years, with some kind of poisoning, which needs to be drained constantly into a bag from his mid chest area. This had become blocked and the poison was backing up into where it was draining from. He collapsed paramedics where called, luckily they arrived in time as his heart stopped again, but they did manage to bring him back. This has happened before, and he is now in hospital, being cared for and maybe this time they can find out why this is happening.
This coming after hubby found out last week that his dad had prostate cancer, has rocked him again.
So now he has said he does not want to know about anyone at all, apart from my 2 daughter's, their partners, our 2 grandchildren, his community support, me and our cat. He will not now answer the phone, the door or open any post.
He wants out of this life, but not in a suicidal way, just out and away from everything that causes him bad stress. He told me today he cannot cope with any of this right now, and does not want to know about anything bad happening to anyone he knows. He is insistent on this, and I have said I will do what I can for now to keep it that way.
He wants the quite, peaceful idyllic life that just does not exist, though I do understand what he means.
I have suggested he talks to his GP, maybe a complete change of medication or something, but he said no the medication is fine, its the outside world that wants changing.
So how do you keep everything away from them, when you know that the slightest thing could tip them even further next time.
Any ideas would be helpfull.
Amethist.
Yesterday my husband had more bad news, and it came while I was out.
His friend who he has know for a very long time has been ill for almost 2 years, with some kind of poisoning, which needs to be drained constantly into a bag from his mid chest area. This had become blocked and the poison was backing up into where it was draining from. He collapsed paramedics where called, luckily they arrived in time as his heart stopped again, but they did manage to bring him back. This has happened before, and he is now in hospital, being cared for and maybe this time they can find out why this is happening.
This coming after hubby found out last week that his dad had prostate cancer, has rocked him again.
So now he has said he does not want to know about anyone at all, apart from my 2 daughter's, their partners, our 2 grandchildren, his community support, me and our cat. He will not now answer the phone, the door or open any post.
He wants out of this life, but not in a suicidal way, just out and away from everything that causes him bad stress. He told me today he cannot cope with any of this right now, and does not want to know about anything bad happening to anyone he knows. He is insistent on this, and I have said I will do what I can for now to keep it that way.
He wants the quite, peaceful idyllic life that just does not exist, though I do understand what he means.
I have suggested he talks to his GP, maybe a complete change of medication or something, but he said no the medication is fine, its the outside world that wants changing.
So how do you keep everything away from them, when you know that the slightest thing could tip them even further next time.
Any ideas would be helpfull.
Amethist.