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Thanks everyone - I havent been able to check in for a few days. Last week I had to call the Mental Health Team out and it was so bad that they even came the same day. The guy was actually a council worker and after being with us for about 2 hours I even saw hubby smile and laugh. Earlier he...

Thank you for these brilliant replies. I am taking it day by day and trying to continue to do the best I can. My son is healthy, clean and I keep his reading up everyday. I will buy a simple cook book - Hubby and son have done some cooking before and had fun. A great idea thank you...

Thanks so much everyone for your brilliant messgaes and honesty too. I have found that I feel better - rather than working, trying to sort out 5 year old son out and dealing with the PTSD symptoms. I have said that we must not over spend - I feel that I would do anything to break the burden...

Dear all I am in Essex and would love to connect with fellow careers.

Dear all again (!) How do you cope with not being dragged down when your partner is going through a slump or in a dark place? I am such a bubbly person and now my hubbies PTSD has eaten away at me and I am not the person I was either. I can feel the 'huge black cloud' even when I am in...

Hi everyone Hubby hasnt been able to work since being hurt in a hit and run car accident 2 years ago and his career has been taken away as he is not able to do it anymore. So money is very tight. We are getting some financial support from the insurance company from time to time - just enough...

Well I have work coming out of my ears at the moment and all needs to be sorted as much as poss before Xmas. What I have done today? About an hour on something and not much else. I have 2 1/2 hours before I need to pick my son up from school and then its difficlut to do much else. Hubby...

I have found that family are scared and do not know what to so. Hubby's sister seems to think that 'we are the only ones with problems' - tore up photographs of us and our son with a horrible letter and posted them through our letter box. Great. This brought back hubbies sleepwalking after...

When PTSD is not here - Bubbly When we are dealing with it- Gutted

Hi Toria There are some great answers here and I have learnt as always too. I wouldnt like comments like that - I am not a prude either but I have seen changes in my hubby and sacastic or near the marks comments and I KNOW that it is PTSD related. I think that sometimes he feels angry and this...

Dear Eleanor I wish I had the answers for us. It is just hell at the moment for us both. It sounds as though you did an amazing job and had a good birthday party for your daughter so well done. Like you I dont want to leave my husband. I dont want to be without him. I do find myself thinking...

Dear likeminded friends I wondered How do you feel about your partners PTSD? I sometimes feel angry and with him too. I HATE to put this down here. So many horrible things happen in the world and many people dont even care. Something happened over 20 years ago that wasnt his fault and it is...

Thanks again Wife of - how terrible to go through this telling your husband about his father and not knowing the kids. I will ask the doctor to check out his endocrine/hormone levels although I know he had a blood test recently and it all came back as normal. My hubby has had this a few times...

Thank you for your amazing reply Abigail - Even when dealing with such terrible issues I find it wonderful how we all want to support each other. Dealing with my husbands PTSD is such a roller coaster - I am jealous of people who think they have problems and really dont know they are born...

Thank you so much Wife of and Myvetswife - I am going to work with this and let him be. Luckily I work from home although it does have its good points and bad ones too. xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks so much everyone. I hadnt really understood 'isolating' before. Maybe its a female thing as I feel its good to talk. I am trying this at the moment although I did pop down for a piece of toast (he asked me) and this ended up with sacastic comments and miserable answers. I am scared that...

Thanks so much for your amazing replies everyone. I havent got back onto the forum since I last posted - Just trying to get a lot of work sorted before its too near to Xmas. Eleanor - we sound so similar. I do wish you all the best too. Hubby was 'fine' for a few days. There is an annual event...

Yes - fighting - boxing or something is what my hubby wants to do :O(

Me again Its been months and then a fair few postings.Today is tough. My husband was hurt in a hit and run car accident and because of this we have a case handler set up by the insurance company. I havent spoken to her in ages. She was supportive when I called just now and getting huubys...

Dear all Just to let you know that this has happened several times now. Last week he went to bed confused and even woke up and didnt know who we were. It took a few hours and the doctor said to go and have a brain scan. We were both so exhausted and it just would have been too stressful so...

Its been ages and would be great to connect Amethist - sounds like its difficult for us both at the moment xx

Looking back over previous postings - 6 months later still juggling work, life and PTSD Hubby is down today - I have new clients, work on the go and things I must do today and what am I doing? Trying to help him get out of the 'black cloud' , crying and feeling terrible. Great. Will this end...

HI all So when he says leave me alone while on a huge downer - what do you do? I cant focus and need to get work done - we are both in the house and I am just so tired of the mood swings. Do you leave your partner alone? Check in on them? Encourage them to do something and break the pattern -...

I felt I could have written this too. I dont know how much more I can take. When hubby is fine then life is great - but sadly the bad times are getting more frequent again. I dont want this. I am jelous of people with boring lives now who have a job they hate and just do normal things like go...

I wonder... my husband said that he wants to take up fighting. Great a 40 year old guy with PTSD who has had a heart attack too. I have said no I am not standing by and supporting him with this. Use his bl@@dy punch bag if anything! However he frequently feels numb. So I wonder if the arguing/...