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Never Give Up, be encouraged brother, really please never give up. Echo, thank you for giving us your response. I really did not know if a characteristic of PTSD was to sabbotage supporters. My wife, a PTSD victim, has not spoken to me since last Friday night and today is Thursday afternoon...

The saying, "...you hurt the ones that you love, " comes to mind, however, yes it is a trait of at least my wife that has been diagnosed with PTSD to take the saying to an over the top, extreme level. Since we have exchanged texts, my wife has acquired flu like symptoms. So in futher...

I am NOT perfect in this war!! There was one evening, about 2 weeks ago that my wife was treating me like excrement, I had had enough that evening and she kept verbally assulting me. Finally, I spoke truth to her. I can't say I spoke truth in love at the time, however it was truth. I...

So does a complete accurate diagnosis of her mental state really matter? Yes it does. However, if she is unwilling to see a Psychiatrist, what can I do as her husband? I can pray. Deal with life one day at a time. Confront my issues and daily attempt to draw closer to God. I can attempt to...

Some may comment saying that it does matter to get a precise diagnosis so that my wife would be under a Dr.'s care receiveing the correct medications and the correct Rx, But the problem is she is unwilling to go to any more counseling, she is unwilling to change any of the medications that she...

When the Dr. removed my wife's breasts, the tissue was sent to pathology and she had a very aggressive cancer. Had she not had the radical surgery, she would have died, because the type of cancer was an untreatable strain. It was one year after the surgery and reconstruction that she committed...

isGood Morning, I am going through what you are going through, so know that you are not alone. My wife and I have been married for 37 years. Two years ago, Drs. found an abnormality in one of my wife's breasts. Her mother and sister had breast cancer. She immediately, Drs. orders, ceased...

Thank you for all your encouraging!! I appreciate your input more than you could ever know!

My wife can definitely control her anger around other people. She does have difficulty with anger around our third son. Is negative emotional score keeping a symptom of PTSD?

I do not know about how my wife knows about this site. I just know she showed me a discussion that I could have written and she said, "see I have PTSD and YOU are to blame for all my unhappiness!!"

Thank you all very much for more insight into my comments. My wife really only goes into a rant and rages at me. That is why I used the name: mywifestrigger. I have read two books on PTSD, two on depression, two on dealing with Menopause, and one a long time ago dealing with pms, and lastly...

Boundries with executions. When my wife begins on a rant. I am to kindly communicate to her that I cannot allow her to talk to me the way that she is and excuse myself. She simply ignors whatever I say and continues on the rant. Following me until I stop and she unloads all of her venom on me...

The counselor that I have now, and his wife partners in the counseling sessions, is rejected by my wife. The counselor has his doctorate in counseling and many years of experience. He counsels professionally. He is not a deacon at our church. He does not say that my wife enables me. He...

Thanks to all for listening and for encouragement. I don't hear encouragement very often. Thank you.

I would like to develop OUR plan, however, that seems useless. So my plan. 1. I stay connected to God through prayer, reading the Bible everyday, and attempting to hear God's, "still, small voice." I attempt to stay grounded in my faith and relationship with God. 2. I stay connected to a...

My wife has surrounded herself with counselors that tell her she is enabling me. Of the 37 years that we have been married, we shared life by me being the one to make the income, and she poured her life into raising our children. We have great children. She blessed them so much by being with...

My wife introduced me to this site this morning. She introduced me to this site to convince me that she does in fact have PTSD. So ok. We have been to marriage counseling. Great marriage counseling. My wife blames me for everything bad that has ever gone wrong in our lives. The PTSD gives...

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This is two days prior to our 37th wedding anniversary. My wife suffers with PTSD. She was diagnosed with PTSD 7 years ago. Prior to that, she was first diagnosed with manic depression. Prior to that she was diagnosed with depression. She blames me for ALL of her unhappiness even though she...