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Being told to leave is horrible :( I've found explaining my boundaries to concerned friends/family helpful - "I know things are difficult right now, but I also know I love him and don't want to leave him. I will look after myself first though and if things escalate to ### point or positive...

Thank you, @Fadeaway. That's really helpful! Boyfriend does definitely read my most microest of micro-expressions and, when he's not doing great, will misinterpret my underlying emotion as threat-based. Scheduling these tricky conversations to be text conversations is an elegantly simple...

I'm a supporter not a sufferer, but I'm a supporter who has spent the last decade working in sleep medicine. It's behind a pay wall, but there's a recent Scientific American article on Sleep And Consciousness goes into how emerging science suggests that it's possible for the attention part of...

@AqueousAndroid - boyfriend prefers frank discussions about emotional states - he works in Mental Health, specialises in complex diagnoses, and was my very best girlfriend long before he was my boyfriend ;) Thank you for your insights regarding how things can be post acute periods :) it's...

The therapeutic relationship is more important than the therapy itself in terms of outcomes. If you hate them, fire them. You wouldn't keep going back to a restaurant with bad service and the same rule applies to therapists and other health care providers. If you have the strength and time...

Hi all, I'm a newbie who stumbled across the site typing ever increasingly sad and desperate comments into Google. Indicators that you're not coping #134. I just wanted to send a sincere thank you for the free and frank discussions about what loving someone with PTSD is like for you. Knowing...