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Hello! Welcome to the forum. Also another thing I've noticed with PTSD, as a supporter myself, I notice when my sufferer tends to recoil and want space, trying to push forward and ask what's wrong tends to make things worse...sometimes in the middle of episodes (I can't speak for every...

Hi Sarah, First, I think it's very, very brave of you to speak up about your issues here despite your reluctance to do so :hug: What kind of relationship do you have with the person who's bullying you? Finding a way to cut ties or communication with them is important, cause you don't deserve...

Really? I don't find that trivial at all! As a supporter of a sufferer, I can barely gain up the courage to make phone calls :confused: probably because my asperger's disorder just makes social interaction really difficult for me, even moreso when I can't see the person's face. Believe me, that...

Hey, don't worry about not telling her this session. Sometimes telling a person you're angry at them is sort of nervewracking. Do you have communication with your therapist by email at all? If you do, Whenever you get the chance, I'd recommend sending an email to them regarding your feelings of...

No problem! Hope your session goes well!

I know maybe it feels awkward, but your therapist is there to help you. If you truly feel distressed or bothered emotionally by something your therapist does, I think it's really important to let them know! They're there to help you. Explain that you feel angry, and that you feel like she...

My sufferer sometimes does the same...mostly, I believe it's because a common symptom of PTSD is anxiety and cognitive distortions. Trusting people is often very hard if not impossible after traumatizing events. My sufferer does this often - when I hang out with other people, she often expresses...

Thank you for this and thank you for reminding a lot of us that we're appreciated :) I struggle a lot trying to help my sufferer, but I love her so much and just want to see her, as well as others who are recovering from their traumas, feel better and heal slowly over time. I know that it hurts...

Not alone here; my sufferer has PTSD, social anxiety and depression, meanwhile I have ADHD Inattentive type (which means I feel frequently lethargic and anything requiring vigilant concentration is especially difficult) and I'm on the Autism spectrum (Asperger's disorder). Her frequent changes...

I just want to say that you're not alone...you're not alone with your loneliness. I'm not a sufferer, rather a supporter, but my best friend with PTSD feels like this a lot of the time too, with or without people around her. It's hard to feel this way and it's hard to go through what you go...

You're right too, and thank you for saying that. I needed to be slapped that across the face. It's not my fault. Yes, people should be mindful around her with her triggers, but life is not going to do that. She's going to be exposed to those things regardless and that's just life. She needs to...

Yeah, see now and I understand. And for years I tell myself the same thing: it's not my fault. I'm just at a loss I guess of how to set this boundary? I guess I have to discipline myself because whenever she has a triggered reaction I instinctively try to help out of habit. I'm gonna try to push...

I just...I don't know. She's a very broken and lonely person. She doesn't have any friends that drag her out of the house. She has self esteem and self image issues. She's been constantly invalidated in the past so therefore she assumes that everyone's default response is that she's not really...

Thank you all of you for the kind words. You are right: I do need to set healthy barriers. It's just really, really hard because she's plagued by suicidal feelings and she hasn't learned any kind of life coping skills. I have an intense phobia of suicidal behavior or sudden disappearances due to...

I guess so...it's just that I'm scared she'll hurt herself. She already expresses extreme distress at the fact that we have distance (even though our friendship has been long distance since the start) and has constant paranoia of abandonment. I'm just unsure what to do in this situation.

Hello everyone, My sufferer is my best friend of 10 years, our relationship so far has been purely long-distance. For context, I would like to think that I've been and extremely lucky person...I have good parents, I have been supported by them, I have made some very good friends and got many...

The both of you are right...my friend has been damaged, and I guess I, as a person, also have a shitton of issues myself. I have Asperger's Disorder and ADHD, I have issues regarding suicide or sudden disappearances (due to my mother having a brain anneurism abruplty when I was 14) and I feel...

Yes, I am 20 and she is 21...we are both extremely young and I can already predict that if something isn't done soon, we'll break apart...It's why I just wish she'd stay in the hospital more...I want to tell her that there is serious co-dependancy issue and she has several cognitive distortions...

No, no, I would never, ever purposefully trigger her. To be honest...I think the reason why may be because she has some kind of seperation anxiety...you see, when I was 15 and rather stupid, I started to be with more people A LOT MORE than I should have. Like, I dissmissed her feelings and...

Hello everyone, This is my first thread on this board so I'm a bit nervous...forgive me if I end up omitting the few things My sufferer is my best friend of about 10 years. She and I have a long distance friendship, and we live in seperate countries, yet despite this, she affects my life so...

Egh. I need this topic again. I'm just so frustrated. "I'm sorry that I couldn't help you." I didn't TELL YOU what I was feeling back then. I was a stubborn asshole and I didn't tell you what I was feeling. You COULDN'T have helped over something you DIDN'T KNOW WAS HAPPENING. Stop blaming...

@Janebug I think the reason why it makes me hopeful is because seeing people in pain or periods of suffering slowly recovering and healing and finally seeing them happy just makes me really, really hopeful. It makes me believe that even if things do go horribly wrong, with some time, love...

@Junebug Oh, I wasn't actually aware of that! The thing is with ADHD, there's two or...maybe three types, I'm not sure, but there's hyperactive type, and Inattentive type (which is why ADHD used to be called ADD, until they changed it). I have the inattentive type, although I do know some people...

Dear Lucky, I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm not in any way a medical source, but I remember my sufferer went through the same kind of habitual emotions upon returning back to her parents' home for the summer. She told me that according to her therapist, he was worried because returning in...

Hello everyone, I realize this thread is pretty old, but I still want to comment regardless...As someone who has been a carer to their best friend for around 10 years, I often do feel underappreciated, invalidated or powerless...I really, really needed to see this. Thank you, all of you...