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I hope he's home safe now and you have managed to relax. I can't imagine how anxious you must have been x

Wow, $2,389 when I woke up this morning! I'll be adding another $100 on payday, and I think we can smash this total :tup:

This ^^ x20! I wish I'd known you were taking pledges though as I plan to donate another $100 after payday on Friday.

I've donated another $10, which will hopefully be bumped up by @joeylittle and her incredibly generous offer!

Donated and updated.

I donate using PayPal. My bank statements just show 'PayPal Payment' and my PayPal transaction history just comes up as 'Anthony Parsons'.

I'll come back and read this later. Thanks Larksong x

As a supporter I find this interesting as hubby will go over and over the same things, and on some days I really struggle with it. But for him, this ^^ isn't an issue.

Me upset = major hubby stressor. I can usually keep it together around him, although there have been a couple of occasions when we've both ended up in a state. We get into a Catch 22 whereby me being emotional stresses him greatly and his behaviour makes me more upset, which makes him worse...

Hey @RaggyDoll I just wanted to let you know that we are thinking of you, and hope you're breathing a bit easier x

Glad to hear from you @RaggyDoll as I've been thinking of you. Keep chasing the Crisis Centre, and keep contacting your GP and getting them to chase too - sometimes it does make a difference. Take care x

So it sounds like having a good co-ordinator is vital. Fingers crossed hubby's group goes a bit better than the ones @SheilaKathy or @KwanYingirl went to! Thanks again for your comments x

Thanks for your quick responses UK peeps. He hasn't really been told much about what to expect, and I think he will feel a bit less anxious if he has an idea what to expect, so I will pass on what you have mentioned. Thanks again x

Hubby had 20 session of 'general' CBT about a year ago, and has now been given a place in a weekly group therapy session which starts tomorrow. As the title says, I just wondered whether anyone had any words of wisdom for him relating to group therapy? Thanks x

Another vote for vague, without lying. I guess it depends on how/where/what you're volunteering to do and whether your health is likely to cause any problems? Good luck with it though, let us know how you get on.

Glad to hear from you today @RaggyDoll. I still think you should go to A&E. Partly because I don't trust the community team to turn up, but mainly because they have obviously not understood how desperate you feel if they are happy to stall you for yet another day. If the community team do...

Glad to hear from you, and thanks for checking in. You just have to be honest and tell them. Ask them to take you to the hospital, you may find that having them there will make it easier to be 'taken seriously'. As for making them feel that 'they are not enough', harsh as it sounds, tough...

Go to A&E and tell them that you are feeling suicidal and you need to be admitted to a psychiatric unit. You need to be really blunt about it, and if they try to send you home with some comment like "we don't currently have any beds, you should go home and see your doctor if you still feel...

I used to be the new girlfriend of a sufferer. All I really knew at the start was that he had PTSD caused by his experiences as a police officer. I didn't really know what that meant, and he was in a post-hospitalisation denial of 'well they let me out without medication so I must be ok now'...

Hubby has access to a 'crisis team', but that is because he is a patient of the psychiatric team. If he called them they would have the ability to have him admitted, by force if they chose. The anonymous support lines however don't trace the calls, so don't know who or where you are.

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Or maybe she's learning how to be a supporter? I second Like any relationship, you need to learn the peculiarities of your partner and that can take time.

Hi, I'm a supporter and not a sufferer. I don't really understand what my husband is going through, and to be honest, I hope I never do. He has not gone into detail about what caused his PTSD (I know it was various traumas through his career as a police officer, including one major event, but...

I can't comment for any other helplines out there, but in the UK the Samaritans are trained in 'active listening'. They are not counselors, and are not supposed to give advice or share their personal opinions. Rather they will turn questions back to the caller; "what do you think?","why do...

Hubby used to be quite pissed off at the idea of me posting on here. He thought that since it's 'his' PTSD I had no business discussing it with anyone, let alone strangers on the internet. Then I heard him on the 'phone talking to his parents about some of my personal stuff, which allowed me to...