I have ptsd from childhood abuse and have been in therapy for 37 years trying to heal the damage. Two years ago my niece died tragically. It was deemed a wrongful death due to hospital error. My sister fell apart and came up from Tennessee to ny with my niece's son who was three. My sister was very sick and not expected to live long and since my wife and i are too old to take him my wife's daughter and husband offered to adopt him.
We got hooked up with a family center and got therapy for him for ptsd as he watched his mother die. But as we integrated my godson into my stepdaughters family he began to talk about being abused emotionally and denied water and food. We have a very good case against my stepdaughter who has been violent recently and as she lives in our building i feel im living with an abuser again. She wont be reported for two weeks and i will be helping my sister move away and wont be here. I feel so much anger. My godson has become very fearful and is afraid this woman will kill him. He's five now and will be going to a school where he will see a ptsd therapis three times a week. I wish i would have gotten help at that age.
We got hooked up with a family center and got therapy for him for ptsd as he watched his mother die. But as we integrated my godson into my stepdaughters family he began to talk about being abused emotionally and denied water and food. We have a very good case against my stepdaughter who has been violent recently and as she lives in our building i feel im living with an abuser again. She wont be reported for two weeks and i will be helping my sister move away and wont be here. I feel so much anger. My godson has become very fearful and is afraid this woman will kill him. He's five now and will be going to a school where he will see a ptsd therapis three times a week. I wish i would have gotten help at that age.