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General Question....Does This Sound Familiar?

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adamoh

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Hello,

Just came across your forum and have a question about PTSD. I am in a relationship of 7 years and am wondering if a person can experience PTSD from the death of a father nearly 24 years ago? My partner's father died the week before his high school graduation from leukemia. He was diagnosed with it 4 or 5 years before his death, then was given a clean bill of health. Next thing they knew he had a tumor around his spine and past away at the age of 41 or 42. Now it is 24 yrs later and my partner sometimes becomes irrational, not violent towards me, but over, he says, his job. But this is the third position he's had since I've known him and with every one of them there has been something that he hates about it and uses as an excuse to be upset and miserable and stressed out. He will fly off the handle pretty much once or twice a week. Doesn't sleep well. He drinks too much on the weekends, never during the week, but Friday and Saturday of nearly every weekend. And not just a beer or two. He'll drink one right after another until he can barely talk or walk. By Tuesday or Weds he's having another meltdown. His attitude towards almost everything is negative and there are days I don't even want to come home. We have a nice home, good jobs and are financially stable. But he is constantly looking to help other people and it seems he does it for the gratitude, so when he doesn't get the gratitude, he freaks out that he does everything for everyone and is always helping everyone but no one will help him when he needs it, which isn't true, but that's his vision of things. Anyhow, I don't want to get too involved with what is going on at the moment and wanted to see if this sounds familiar to anyone else.

Thank you for your help.
 
I believe that this is a question for a therapist for him to visit. If he needs some kind of help, if it is PTSD or not, the right place to start is in a clinic.

I don't want to be rude, but it would be irresponsible for anybody here to state that he has PTSD.
 
Welcome to the forum adamoh.

Ursa is correct in that the best person to help determine what is wrong with your partner is a therapist, psychiatrist etc who specialises in this area.

Good luck.
 
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