Other Anybody ever heard of a lawyer taking a case of family court caused complex PTSD

[EveHarrington]

Your writing style gives the impression that you aren’t exactly sober.

Could that be part of the reason that you don’t have your kids?

 

[Friday]

Court can’t cause PTSD.

Even court in countries where the end result will be beatings, rapes, stood against a wall and shot (technically watching others stood against a wall, if it was you PTSD would be the last of your concerns)... it’s those events that would cause the PTSD, not the court itself.

Similar to marriage cannot cause PTSD, and sueing the priest/judge who married you would be nonsense, as it would be violence within the marriage that could cause PTSD.

Is court stressful? Absolutely. And a lot of people break under that stress, especially when the stakes are high.

That’s a different thing from getting PTSD from court. You’d have to have already had PTSD, which is then affected by the stress, but that’s still not the court’s fault. Anymore than any other preexisting condition being exacerbated by stress. If someone has a heart condition, and sufferers a heart attack at court? The correlation is there, the stress from court triggered the heart attack; but not the causation, the court’s are not responsible for the heart attack.

 

[joeylittle]

I think lawyers tend to avoid personal injury cases or civil suits specifically dealing with PTSD, because PTSD alone is difficult to build a case on. Even invoking it as one of many problems an individual is left with, may weaken one's case.

So no, I don't think it's likely to find a lawyer who is willing to try and sue for any kind of damages when PTSD is the central damage.

You've gotten good answers here, and good advice. I'd second seeing a mental health professional.

 

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@EveHarrington while I think it is safe to say that the OP doesn't have court caused PTSD and doesn't have "ALL the symptoms" despite the fact it was clearly emotionaly distressing; I don't think it is safe to assume they aren't sober.

 

[mumstheword]

Parental ailienation is extremely stressful and can cause acute stress.

It sounds like therapy would be very helpful. I went through parental ailienation and although it didn't cause my ptsd, it still feels like the most painful and difficult thing that I've been through and I've suffered CSA, childhood violence and chronic abuse and neglect, adult long term relational abuse and sexual assaults, so I do understand the pain you are going through.

In my case the ailienator was very abusive, also, and a number of my children have serious mental health conditions as a result.

You really need to look after you. See a councellor, if you can, connect with others in the same boat, too, and figure out how to regain a sense of agency, learn how to self care and stop tearing yourself up over the outcome (easier said than done, I know). Life can be extremely unfair, people can be dishonest and biased and lack sufficient duty of care and the legal and political system is not exempt from that. I feel for you, I really do, I know your pain is very, very real and the worry you feel for your children should not be minimized. You have incurred an extremely heartbreaking loss and those who haven't gone through something like that, really can't know the extent or the extremity of that pain. It's a very real loss but because your kids are still alive, people underestimate how painful and grevious that loss really is.

There is a book about familial ailienation but I can't think what the title is right now, but it's written by a clinical psychologist and he talks about how acute stress is an outcome, luckily it's not ptsd but it's very, very extreme while it lasts. I hope you don't have ptsd, if you get some support and validation for your loss it will help mitigate the effects. I did and am still in therapy and I lost my kids 9 years ago, but have them back in my life now. I don't feel fully recovered from the loss though, I lost years of my children's lives. Everytime I spend time with them I heal a bit more though. In between times, I do a lot of self care and therapy.

Good luck with everything. I wish I could hug you in empathy and solidarity and to comfort you, because I can tell you deeply love your children and this is devastating for you @Willnotgiveup

 

[Sideways]

Suing the family court for giving you ptsd would be a really excellent way to completely waste your own time.

It would also be persuasive evidence to the court of your lack of insight, poor judgment, and your inability to regulate your own emotions and prioritise your childrens’ needs ahead of your own.

Trying to bring your children before the judge to defend your position? Was an appalling thing to do to your children. This is an issue created by their parents, and it is their parents’ responsibility to resolve it. Involving them in that process runs completely counter to the type of support they need from their parents during what is no doubt a really traumatic time for them.

You have implied in your posts that you consider yourself to be a ‘normal’ parent. I can assure you - that is not the case. The completely counterproductive steps you have taken to date, which you have described in a largely incoherent fashion, speaks to just how far you fall outside what might be considered ‘normal’ parenting. ‘Normal’ parenting would be “what does the court need to see me improve to gain access to my kids?” and then devoting 100% of your energy towards fixing those issues.

Quit wasting the court’s time. Quit wasting the White House’s time. Quit wasting our time - you don’t have ptsd from the court process. The family court system sux. But the suggestion it has given you ptsd is both ridiculous and offensive - this is, after all, a forum for people with actual ptsd.

Instead? Focus on the reasons the court has relied on to increasingly diminish the involvement you’re allowed to have in your childrens’ life. That is - whatever reasons the court has given for deeming you a really lousy parent? Start focusing on that instead of how much the family court system sux. If your kids are genuinely your number one priority, then your crusade against the family court can wait.

 

[Kubash16]

Suing the family court for giving you ptsd would be a really excellent way to completely waste your own time.

It would also be persuasive evidence to the court of your lack of insight, poor judgment, and your inability to regulate your own emotions and prioritise your childrens’ needs ahead of your own.

Trying to bring your children before the judge to defend your position? Was an appalling thing to do to your children. This is an issue created by their parents, and it is their parents’ responsibility to resolve it. Involving them in that process runs completely counter to the type of support they need from their parents during what is no doubt a really traumatic time for them.

You have implied in your posts that you consider yourself to be a ‘normal’ parent. I can assure you - that is not the case. The completely counterproductive steps you have taken to date, which you have described in a largely incoherent fashion, speaks to just how far you fall outside what might be considered ‘normal’ parenting. ‘Normal’ parenting would be “what does the court need to see me improve to gain access to my kids?” and then devoting 100% of your energy towards fixing those issues.

Quit wasting the court’s time. Quit wasting the White House’s time. Quit wasting our time - you don’t have ptsd from the court process. The family court system sux. But the suggestion it has given you ptsd is both ridiculous and offensive - this is, after all, a forum for people with actual ptsd.

Instead? Focus on the reasons the court has relied on to increasingly diminish the involvement you’re allowed to have in your childrens’ life. That is - whatever reasons the court has given for deeming you a really lousy parent? Start focusing on that instead of how much the family court system sux. If your kids are genuinely your number one priority, then your crusade against the family court can wait.

This, this, this!! I freaking love you @Sideways!

 

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Not to leave you disappointed, but you can't sue courts or judges. They have immunity.

 

[Willnotgiveup]

Your writing style gives the impression that you aren’t exactly sober.

Could that be part of the reason that you don’t have your kids?

I was talking into my phone and it does not pick up my words exactly as I'm saying them. the reason I don't have my kids is because the judge in my case did not like the fact that I exposed their mother was abusing them which was also backed up by two independent agencies CPS and family court services both confirm my children were being abused the judge did not like that and terminated all my parental rights and gave my kids to her believe that or not that's what happened so that's the reason I don't have my kids. And because my kids were stripped out of my life the loving parents life the one that they said they felt safe with it they told Family Court counselors they were safe with yeah that's why I've got PTSD smartass

 

[Willnotgiveup]

Not to leave you disappointed, but you can't sue courts or judges. They have immunity.

that's actually not true at all I've done the research on it and it only took me 10 minutes to find about a dozen different supreme Court rulings that where you can say to judges when they are acting under the color of law while under their oath there is no statute of limitations on that as far as suing them for damages. So you are wrong.

 

[Kubash16]

Hold up dude, absolutely no need to be name calling. Chill your roll. Has a counselor or doctor given you an ACTUAL diagnosis?

 

[Kubash16]

I hope you are able to eventually admit to yourself what actually happened for your kids sake. I realize there are some corrupt judges out there but even they don’t do what you say yours did. Open your eyes and try to see what all happened.