Recent content by Justyna

@NoWhereKnowWhere I'm having a hard time figuring out how I can help myself first, and then help my husband, if were both going through this. I almost feel selfish helping myself first, and then helping him later... but I know that I need to...

@Hashi, I totally understand where you are coming from. My situation is that my husband is not reaching out to anyone. Not even his friends. He is slowly declining and me saying that we need help is not helping. So we are stuck... And I have no other way to mention to my two closest friends that...

@hazen Honestly, no. Me, speaking as the spouse of a PTSD veteran, I don't think so. It can be respected, but from our side, we need help too. If people suffer PTSD, their parter will too. Not in the same way, but they have the affect too, because they see you suffering. Sometimes one can only...

I believe that you did the right thing. As sad as it sounds, you leaving has shown him that he has to face reality and face is dead on. Being with you and at home caused great comfort and made it seem okay to him the way you two were. But making him face his fear of PTSD sometimes is what needs...

The 19th of this month will be two years of being married. And it already feels like five because of all the work, and I barley have done any work with working on handling his PTSD. So far I have experienced mood swings: random no matter what, even if I say something happy he might snap into...

Hi! I'm Justyna :) I decided to sign up today in hopes to find help with dealing with my husbands combat PTSD. I think that for the past year or two I have completely suppressed the fact that my husband has PTSD. What hit me was yesterday, when we had our first intervention. Where my husband...