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This would be my checklist if I was in your shoes: Get professional help for father. Get professional help for self. Get good legal advice.

OK I feel compelled to give a word of warning about avoidance behaviours. It's tempting to avoid all the things that PTSD tells us are a danger. The problem is when we do it it makes our worlds smaller and smaller. Until we get to a point where we struggle with anything outside our safe but...

If you search around this forum you will find very similar threads regarding punishment for periods by abusers. You'll also find lots of posts from people who worry that their T doesn't believe them. Since you can never really know what is in someone else's head its an understandable concern...

I've done a fair bit of research into the use of Ayahuasca in the treatment of PTSD. My big caution is that it has become so popular that there are many practitioners out there who have no idea what they are doing. The traditional use of Ayahuasca had built in safeguards. The ceremony was...

Are you getting help at all? Its hard to help someone else when you are struggling yourself. Your husband really should get back on track with his therapy. Have you read the PTSD cup article here? Perhaps there are outside stresses that you both can address to make more room in that cup.

Hmmm. Interesting. That may be exactly what I'm doing too.

@Zebruh What led you to your initial drug use? What pain were you trying to escape by self medicating?

OK. People here have told you the truth. You seem reluctant to accept the responses you've been given. Why is that? I notice in your OP you identified the real issue: So you have an avoidant nature and you want tips to help avoid the discomfort you feel? Maybe you should consider another...

I suggest going and telling the truth. Its not the easy option but its probably the best.

I would suggest just telling your T how uncomfortable the entry phone makes you. Rather than trying to find a way to avoid it work with her to get past or control the anxiety the phone causes.

Nope. Stopped caring. I'm a crazy old man in the woods. I have no problem looking like one.

Agreed. Short of sleeping with a sock in your mouth there is not much you can do anyway. If you keep working on getting better the screaming eventually stops (mostly) and the nightmares die down.

I can understand that. I thought I was numb to this sort of stuff. Seems I'm not. Not today anyway.