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I posted a couple weeks ago that my vet with PTSD had gone back to the isolation period. Now he's at the stage, which I vaguely remember from a year ago, where he is telling me how wonderful and perfect I am and he's just a dumbass that deserves so much better than him. So this leads to the push...

Thank you @Lemontree. It was that comment that broke me down and made me not want to be here. Thank you for reasuring me.

Thank you. He is a gym rat. He's starting to feel better now. Praying this is it!!!!

I tried to quit cymbalta on a dr pres fined step down and was suicidal. I'm still on it now bc I refuse to go thru it again. Being his second week he is doing much better. I'm just worried bc he's a 1000 miles away so there's only so much pushing I can do and I don't want him to isolate more if...

I believe, as does our therapist, that they are irrational since they have happened twice now almost a year to the day. All of his actions and words say different. By his own admission, he hates being alone. Because he has met alone with the therapist and together with me, she is very aware of...

Thank you. I am on antidepressants and antianxiety meds and I have never been told to go cold turkey.

My vet has Combat PTSD, so he finally went to the Dr for his meds. He has been on Paxil for 18 years and the Dr pulled him off cold turkey and started him on Lexapro. He's on week 2 now but is having trouble sleeping and says he feels depressed a lot more that he hasn't felt before. Our...

I am in therapy and doing the best to take care of myself. He calls and texts daily and if I've said I may need a break from that, he gets upset and doesn't want to be without me.

So while he's telling me he needs space, he calls and texts daily. He says he misses me but that doesn't change his mind about wanting a relationship right now. I get that he thinks his thoughts are rational but in reality they are irrational. When does this become visible to him? He's started...

All these replies are perfect! Thank you!

He has combat ptsd and mine is from sexual abuse as a child so very different and I don't isolate.

thank you. He says he needs his space, which I get, but then he says he needs to be able to call and text daily. Unless it's super important, I let him text or call first. It's about being patient but I feel like I'm coming unglued while I wait. I have severe anxiety and ptsd and it just hurts...

Last year it was when I told him I had to step away because I had to heal. I couldn't be in contact every day because it was too painful. He lasted 4 days and wanted me back. The problem with that is I'm afraid it could cause me to lose him which is the last thing I want.

my combat vet is in the isolation stage right now, pushing me away because he feels he's too broken for me and I deserve better. We've been here before, but I wasn't aware of what it was from. Now I'm aware and I'm giving him his space and just curious is there a general time frame? Last year...

Complex PTSD is a psychological injury that results from protracted exposure to prolonged social and or interpersonal trauma in the context of dependence, captivity or entrapment, which results in the lack or loss of control.... Thanks for your recommendation. The sarcasm isn't needed. I...

Can any combat veterans recommend the best books you would recommend for Complex PTSD? I've seen a few listed here but there don't seem to be geared at Combat PTSD. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

Thank you. After all we've been through I have gotten him into see my counselor. She specializes in trauma and PTSD and for him at 46, this is a huge step for him. I will rest in that he wants help at this point.

I know I will stand beside him no matter what. He's had latke triggers and when we are together, because be has shared them with me, I can help him cope. I love unconditionally and would never walk away because of it. He's very calm in most times he deals with it and may go into a room alone. As...

Thank you. I am the only person that he has been able to open up to about his PTSD. His ex wife was very brutal and wouldn't have listened to him and would've made fun of him. He has cried to me and I allow him and encourage him to get it out and not hold it in. We have only been together...

Thank you. Let me clarify, my job in GA is ending and I will not be able to sustain my $1800 mortgage payment which is why I wanted to move to Austin bc the job market there is much better as is the living factors. We haven't had an unstable relationship and it is actually very strong, except...

And also to add, this only happens in the spring, March/April. It was my idea to move because we love Austin and he was the one ready and excited to start new and be father away from the kids' dad.

Thank you. I didn't think of that. He left as planned to find a job and you for us there so when school is out we will be moving but I know they see me in my frazzled state and know I'm upset, which I don't want them to see. 9 months of our relationship was long distance. He lived in Austin...

Thank you so much for saying it's a good sign. He's always said in the past "I always come back". The thing about the kids, is he has been a better dad figure to them than their own dad who is all but absent. He is kind and loving.

Hi. I'm new here. I've been in a serious relationship with a vet with combat PTSD for just over a year and a half. Since September he was living with me and my 2 small children. He moved 2 weeks, the day after buying my engagement ring, to move to Austin and get a job and place to live. He...