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my brother acts this way towards women and their "weeknesses" and has his whole adult life and he is not a vet. he has never (to my knowledge) ever gotten treatment or help. his wife told me she is going to leave him after decades together since the kids are now grown and out of the house. there are some extremely painful stuff their family has been hit hard with and my brother told me he is pissed that she hasn't "sucked it up" and "just dealt with it" she is "so week" and he's sick of it. he told me he told her to go to a psychiatrist and get meds and deal with your ill brain. he meant this seriously, this was not sacrcasam but his belief.

he got this way from the conditioning he received from male culture that our culture puts on boys, and he got this from our upbringing. In our family there was only one person in our household who was allowed to have problems and we were forbidden to have any problems or we would have our lives threatened. This is not an exagerration. Homicidal rage was what we experienced if we just looked sad, forget having any anger. So we all learned to "SHUT" off all negative emotions, pretend painful things are nothing to pay attention to, put on a charismatic smile and greet the world everyday. It's really scary stuff because I think it's how psychopaths are made.
 
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I really need to print your message and remind myself of this every damn time. We are two different people and I should celebrate in our differences and so should he, I think from both sides - he would like me to toughen up and I would like him to be more soft. Essentially when something shit happens .... he is not my go to, which is sometimes difficult as he is my go to person to tell everything to, but this is just a habit I need to break and vice versa. The analogy of your relationship with your sister really hit the nail on the head for me. Thank you!

If I bite back, it's a recipe for disaster. I've tried every method but I guess it's vocalising how I'm feeling and saying what I'm going to do i.e. put the phone down and walk away without it coming across as an attack.
 
By pointing out a victim's perceived absence of mind and lack of situational awareness, someone like me with raging PTSD is able to appear serene as we "correctly identify" the problem, maybe safe-ish in the knowledge of how to avoid the same snafu. We may embellish further the precise Darwin Award the not-real-like-im-real person has won.

Maybe it's normal to think it, but not cool to voice? Too soon?

While the spell checking of my shiny, new verbal PowerPoint to edumacate my friends as I cross-check each and every one of a victim's "mistakes," and misfortunate gender in this particular case, may work in the heat of the moment to calm my slap-happy self-triggering monkey shine aura--sure, there's still the small matter of not being a chumstick.

My PTSD's Response: "Dude, I can't find a Roaring Fork to give." Cracks neck, finesses a set of burpees, and checks it's six for any phone-licking Millennials in need of a good ass-kicking.
 
there's still the small matter of not being a chumstick.

That seems to be the brass ring... and I love watching my partner snatch it more and more often. I know how hard he works at checking himself, thats why I let the occasional chumstickiness slide.

Now if his head was always up his ass, that’d be a whole new ballgame.
 
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