Recent content by jankdingus

thanks guys I really appreciate all of this. all the info and suggestions are being taken into account as I go through this with her. I would do anything for this girl but it's hard because while I'm trying my best to bring those feelings out that she's stifled for years and assessing/validating...

Thank you so much. this really is good information. You see as it happened to her, she told her mother about the event. Her mother told her she was lying and to "get over it". Terrible I know..I try to show her I care but it's very hard to get anything out of her when she becomes distant. I have...

Thank you very much. that's better than feeling totally helpless. I constantly try to show her that I care and love her but she becomes distant frequently or will tell me she's fine even though it's evident she isn't. I realize she's trying to make things easier for me and trying to cope but I...

Nothing at all? Nothing I can share with her to practice? I'm desperate, she's self harming recently over it and it worries me..

Hi there. Um. I'm not sure how to really word this. But my girlfriend suffers from PTSD over when she was sexually assaulted as a kid. She refused professional help and she's started having nightmares about the event so vividly that she wakes up screaming. It's obviously very traumatic for her...