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The simple fact that she called a person a "schizophrenic" and referenced making a "mistake" by reading their journal is enough to tell me this person is probably not a great therapist. Our goal is to reduce stigma and increase resiliency and recovery, so we would say "someone with...

@F-18Wife He does drink alcohol but it's not every night. I will definitely let him know about this though. It would be interesting to track and see if he sleeps worse on the nights he drinks vs. abstains. It's so difficult because it's multi-faceted. There's the sleep apnea (stopping...

Last night, my combat vet went to have another sleep study done. [I've talked a little bit about him before, but just quickly, we've been dating over 3 months, he told me within the first 2 weeks that he's got PTSD, and it's been a series push/pull since then, with a lot of...

Speaking as a therapist, I would say that you are well within your right to not come in for a last session. If you are finding no real benefit from the counseling, then bringing your desire to fire him into the therapeutic process is irrelevant. In my opinion, it's his issue, not yours...

Unfortunately, there are some very ignorant professionals out there. You happened to bump into two of them in quick succession. :sour: It can be super tricky to find good docs and other health professionals. There are a lot of good ones out there, but there are a lot of mediocre to baaaaad ones...

First of all, I am so sorry that this happened to you!! I'm not a physical therapist, but I am in the health professions realm, and this behavior is not AT ALL okay. Sexual innuendo, creating a threatening power dynamic, being outright threatening (I could break your neck if I wanted to...

Thanks, @Justmehere , that is very very helpful. I hadn't considered the facet of fear related to losing others, or at least the possibility of losing others that are close, and therefore the fear of getting close. Makes a lot of sense.

This totally makes sense to me, for people who developed PTSD from childhood abuse, sexual/physical violence, etc. I'm wondering how this applies to combat vets, who may have never seen their attacker(s) and/or didn't necessarily associate their trauma with a physical person but with an...

Just YES to everything you're saying.... Lol... :cool: That's exactly what happens to me, and that's exactly how I react to it, and that's exactly how I'm trying not to react to it. Case in point, N left on a trip and I didn't see him for 10 days. Also didn't hear from him much. I knew he was...

@Tiffany3 Hearing your story makes me feel better somehow, just knowing I'm not alone. Not that it makes it any easier on you.... ;) N told me about 2 weeks into dating about his PTSD and honestly I think the only reason he said anything about it that quick was because he knew I was a therapist...

@SunflowerHoney I'm sorry if I didn't clarify better. He is fine talking about basic things (i.e. his job, hobbies, day-to-day stuff, etc). It's the more emotionally-charged stuff that he does not open up about. Good question. I know enough about him to know that he's a good guy and he's not...

@journey31 I can totally relate to this. I agree with sweetpea, I think it may be a combination of getting the vibe as a dude that you're in the doghouse, with an additional element that speaks to some fear or doubt that "maybe I've pushed too hard" and worry that you're going to be gone for...

I've been dating my dude for over 3 months now. He's a combat vet with PTSD. As many can probably relate, he has huge difficulty talking about serious stuff and the only reasons I know anything intimate about his life are those random moments he chooses opens up. I know he's been to Afghanistan...

@Yunie I know, right? I feel like we've been seeing the same person! :hilarious: He says the most outrageous things sometimes, and then sometimes literally the next moment, will out of the blue say "Thanks for dinner." And it doesn't sound like a lot, but I know it's big for him.

Hahahaha.... Yup. His best response to the "how was your day?" question was "Are you seriously asking me that right now?" Uh, yeah. I seriously did. One time I was making him tacos at HIS request and then he got super pissy at me because I was doing it wrong. I said "if you wanted it done a...

I think there's probably a fair bit of embarrassment or shame/guilt involved as well. And yes, fear, that if you brought it up, it would lead to a whole long conversation about why, what's going on, etc etc, that's just way too uncomfortable for him. I have a feeling (this is me guessing, as...

In my limited experience, yes. When he chooses to disappear for awhile and then reappears, there's no mention of it from his end. However, if he doesn't hear from me for a period of time he deems inappropriate (5 hours, a day, or any length of time that annoys him), I get a text "Oh, she lives."...