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Thank you for coming home a second year in a row and continuing to avoid me. Coming to my workplace, your former workplace you left unhappy, and visiting on the opposite shift so you wouldn't run into me. And thanks for letting me hear it secondhand, get caught offguard yet again. Loved hearing...

Angry that you have made someone who is a keeper, who is the most loyal friend you could ever ask for, HAVE TO break her promises and let you go. Tired of headgames, tired of rejection, tired of not being good enough to be included with your precious family and your childhood best friend. You...

Yes. The answer is yes.

When it has been 22 months and 7 days and your heart still feels like it is breaking each and every day.

I wish I could be angry. Angry is better than grieving and sad. Why doesn't time make any difference in the pain? Accept it, will it away, compartmentalize it, nothing helps, it is still there. People make giving up on somebody sound so black and white, but hearts don't work like that.

I thought that was true, but it's not. I know it's not ptsd, but when my stepson was murdered I thought I had made my choice on how to cope with it. I thought as time passed it would get easier, but it seems like you just circle back sometimes and have to choose all over again as events in life...

I am sorry if this is slightly off topic, looks like this thread is about out of steam anyhow. But the comparison of someone with PTSD to cancer or other serious illnesses just doesn't fly. I guess it is difficult for a sufferer to understand a supporter. A person with cancer or whatever is weak...

Can one actually draw Social Security benefits for being a midget? I am 4 ft 9 inches and people tell me this a lot. At first I thought they were joking, but lots of them are actually serious. I already shrank .5 inch, another inch will make me an official midget, I believe. Can I get paid to...

Angry that you misled me. Angry I cared. Angry I still want so badly to be included in your life and matter to you.

I tend to think it is a ptsd trait. That is what my sufferer does with friendship, oversharing and intense. (One can reasonably infer she might do that with romantic relationships also.) I feel like I got overwhelmed by the whole family history and the trauma, thrown in the deep end of ptsd...

I am so angry that you spent years with me making me feel like I was somebody and you cared about me. But when I knew you were moving, would no longer be my supervisor, and we made the friendship personal.... you gave me the ptsd treatment. Got real close, drew me into your family history, and...

Oh so sorry. There was a bad wreck in our front yard many years ago very early in the morning. I woke up to the sounds of the crash, the teenage girl screaming. I work in retail and to this day I will leave the sales floor to get away from the sound of howling children. There are just certain...

I'm just happy for you that you even think it is an option. My sufferer still will not speak to me. I understand your freakout, I don't know how I would handle it either. Rejection, pain, and all the hurt from all that time don't just disappear. And the anger.

This sounds like my house, where neither my husband nor myself have ptsd. A little of it may just plain be "normal" male/female partnership. We go through our emotional stuff. He gets all easily offended and flys off the handle. Usually because he is a) not feeling well and in pain or b)...

Hmmm, not Southern Baptist, but old school Pentecostal. I don't think they teach that God hates you for being born. But they DO teach an unreasonable standard of perfection. And I totally relate to feeling set up for betrayal. They need to focus far more on the fact that sometimes God's answer...

I do not have ptsd, but I have suffered severe clinical depression and had bouts with suicidal ideation since my youth. Oh yes I understand you. My depression and SI prevented me from finishing college out of high school. And once you lose momentum, lose your initial scholarships and aid, going...

It is completely inappropriate to ask someone a question like that in a public setting. And highly dubious in a private setting unless your relationship is very personal. I am incredulous that an instructor would do anything that just plain stupid. Nothing to do with ptsd, even, since when is...

I am not "in a relationship" with either of the sufferers in my life. In fact they don't even know one another. One of them I have known since 1993 and have an excellent relationship with, we have made our adjustments and overcome some bad times together. She is older than myself, more like an...

The term for it I believe is secondary ptsd. And I think anyone who gets it should get a medal just for sticking around that long!! (Most folks "c" their way out asap.) :rolleyes: Seriously, get help for yourself. I have two people in my life who have ptsd, one complex, and the longterm stress...

Deleted. I think the other poster is correct. Not a productive thread. I am sitting in a hospital room with my spouse who is ill and I'm not thinking clearly. I sincerely love my sufferer like a kid sister and although I have a hard time with her sometimes I need to focus on the good not the...

The problem with "giving them space" is that some sufferers do not have the communication skills to let anyone know that is what they want. Or if there is any hope whatsoever that if you give him/her space or silence, will it do any good and will he/she ever come back? That is why folks write...

So sorry you had that experience. I work in retail and unless the child is actually doing something destructive to property or physically hurtful to another, everybody should just keep their mouth shut. Oh yes, or something that might injure the child (such as climbing ladders or being...

Ok, I just skimmed through this thread. Someone asked, and I am surprised a moderator has not jumped in..... What is MRA and the other long acronymn?? You lost me a little at the beginning because I do not know what this stands for or what the group is. Remember we are from all over the world...

I started doing this also. Long story why, but when I went to the mental health services for an evaluation, the doc said it was a very helpful tool. Similar to keeping a diary, only verbal. It has helped me tremendously. It is available 24/7 for me to vent. And I can tell all the stuff I cannot...

This is something I had to learn. In my upbringing it is considered a very poor character trait, not being able to make and keep commitments. So it took a while for me to truly understand that my friend with ptsd isn't exhibiting poor character or being two-faced. Sometimes she has symptoms...