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Thank you to everyone who replied. You're all so helpful! Thank you especially to Pixie. I appreciate hearing about your first hand experience. I think you're right about the dissociative fugue. Or possibly even dissociative amnesia? In all my reading, I think I was putting things together...

Firstly, I want to apologize to anyone who read my introduction a while back. It has been revealed very recently that my friend, the sufferer, was not military and that many of the things he told me were, in fact, false (aside from the retrograde amnesia). I feel very bad about posting false...

He has said a lot of touching things to me regarding what my continued friendship means to him, despite his PTSD. This in particular was after a rough few days. "You have a world of good inside you. Something special; everyone is unique in their own way, but you are special. I'm not sure how...

I've been in horses for a majority of my life, and I know horses help a lot with desensitization and mental health problems, etc. My friend who has PTSD started working around horses, and he found it was very calming. He has his own horse now, and he has said it's very good to have something he...

Thanks for the welcome! Maria - Sufferers sometimes having big relationship issues is one of the first things I encountered with my friend. He's seemed to mostly work through it as far as I'm concerned, but it's definitely something I have to remind myself sometimes. Johnny - The people saying...

I hope this is in the right place. It seems to be. I'm not a sufferer, and I'm not sure I necessarily count as a carer, but I have a very good friend who suffers from PTSD. It's a strange story, but I met a very nice young man about a year ago through an online game. We struck up a tentative...