Hi everyone,
I have been lurking on this site for a couple of months - have been wanting to post, but don't even know where to start talking about everything. So today I figured I have to start somewhere, at least an introduction of myself.
My husband was diagnosed with PTSD a couple of years ago. We've been married for 11 years, and from the get-go things have been turbulent. We both have our issues - I myself am a recovering alcoholic who is not exactly emotionally healthy either and my husband has had recurring bouts of major depression and now the PTSD diagnosis.
Right now, where I am at, I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. I don't have a very good support system. My parents live nearby, but are getting elderly and have been having severe health problems (my father had hip replacement and triple bypass this past summer, my mom has parkinson's and was recently diagnosed and being treated for breast cancer). We have two young children and our finances are poor, to say the very least. I lost my sister to cancer a few years ago.
I know that I am taking on too much in my head - that I worry about too much when I really have little control over anything. And then there's dealing with the emotions involving my husband's and my own problems - anger at him, anger at myself for things that have been done or have been left undone.....knowing that that anger is natural, but needs to be dealt with....and not knowing how to deal with it. Being frightened of the future. Being frightened of the present.
Help? :dontknow:
I have been lurking on this site for a couple of months - have been wanting to post, but don't even know where to start talking about everything. So today I figured I have to start somewhere, at least an introduction of myself.
My husband was diagnosed with PTSD a couple of years ago. We've been married for 11 years, and from the get-go things have been turbulent. We both have our issues - I myself am a recovering alcoholic who is not exactly emotionally healthy either and my husband has had recurring bouts of major depression and now the PTSD diagnosis.
Right now, where I am at, I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. I don't have a very good support system. My parents live nearby, but are getting elderly and have been having severe health problems (my father had hip replacement and triple bypass this past summer, my mom has parkinson's and was recently diagnosed and being treated for breast cancer). We have two young children and our finances are poor, to say the very least. I lost my sister to cancer a few years ago.
I know that I am taking on too much in my head - that I worry about too much when I really have little control over anything. And then there's dealing with the emotions involving my husband's and my own problems - anger at him, anger at myself for things that have been done or have been left undone.....knowing that that anger is natural, but needs to be dealt with....and not knowing how to deal with it. Being frightened of the future. Being frightened of the present.
Help? :dontknow: