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Supporter Abusive Girlfriend - Is This Ptsd?

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Hi all. First off. I was diagnosed and treated for PTSD a few years ago. I was a triathlete and had an episode of heart Arrythmia.

Enough about me. I'm currently dating a girl whom I am madly in love with. We grew up as kids. Moved away grew up some more then were reunited fell in love the rest as they say is history. We have been dating for a year and I have to say things are aweful. It started slowly. She would out of no where get angry that I was working late. Or angry or upset that I was talking to my friends. Then I had a shitty experience when all my tendons got attacked by antibiotics and she thought I was having sex with my therapist. Then we moved in together. I got a three week long job on a movie. And this is when it all started.

She thought I was lying to her all the time began cutting. She tried to jump In front of the T one night but I grabbed her. She screamed I should just let her die and ran off. She ran cross country all her life so... I lost her. I wondered around looking and calling her. But I heard sirens from the direction she went and I started crying and having a panic attack because I thought she actually got by the train but when I got there it was on a fire.

She ended up back home an hour later. She thought I was sleeping with some girl she completely made up. I'm not kidding like made up what she looked like how we met everything. That has been going on since the summer. Now were at a point where she tells me I'm the reason she wants to die. That she hates me. Tries taking pills and cutting and when she says said she was going to commit suicide and I was at work I called her parents.

Now she says I just want to turn her family against her and I'm not her true friend and I don't have her back. She goes out at night some times and drink but if I go out with my friends she says I don't care about her and I'm selfish. She randomly went to LA and stayed with some guys I didn't know for a long weekend. So I went to big sur to hike a few weeks later. She said I didn't care and I was just trying to meet people to f*ck and I was doing it to hurt her. All I wanted was to hike because I suggested we do something similar together prior but she said she had work and no money (she walked out on her job and then her parents had to help her make rent.

That's how she went to LA). I tried to leave her because things were so unfair she said if I did she would kill herself. In the beginning I tried to be there and just take the name calling and stuff but one night she ran and got a knife from the kitchen and ran towards me saying I make her this way and I grabbed her and she starting screaming I make her want to die. I knocked the knife out of her hands but she hit me a few times. Now when she says stuff like I will never be like her friend tanner (her guy friend) or I make her want to die or that I'm selfish and a shitty person. I try to stick up for myself but I snap and yell at her now saying please stop! This isn't fair! But she says I just don't understand.

When she drinks she is happy around everyone but later she will randomly snap and start screaming at me. She was in an abusive relationship prior to dating me. She just self diagnosed her self with PTSD. But I went through PTSD and I never treated people like that. Is all that really PTSD. I just want to know if me getting defensive and not putting up with it anymore selfish?

I'm looking for a therapist because I cry randomly now and day dream about ending my life. She tried to keep my caged up (not literally lol emotionally) so she doesn't have to deal with uncomfortable situation. I've become agitated and now I snap easily because of the stress and anxiety of anything I do will make her try or commit suicide. I can't take being screamed at. I've never cheated or thought about it but she thinks I'm a monster. It's hard to be there for her when she takes her past out on me.

Am I selfish? Am I a bad boyfriend because I can't man up and let the hurtful things she say roll off me!?!? I just have no idea what to do... She says I should be more like her friends but they don't see all the things I see and she treats them like gold. It's getting harder and harder to be supportive when the only things I see are negatives.


Sorry that was long and a stream of thought.
Chris
 
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Hi Chris, sorry for what you are going through. I read everything. It could be PTSD, but you know what? All I can say is that the relationship does not sound healthy, but I think that you already knew that.

Let me ask you this. If you knew for sure that it was PTSD, what would that mean to you?
 
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I don't think it would mean anything to me. I'm so hurt by all the stuff she has said and done that it's hard to believe she doesn't mean any of it and that it gives her an excuse to treat me like that.... I get being depressed. I get the cutting... I've had friends that did it. I get the alienation I get the agitation and anxiety I went through it all my self. But I NEVER took it out on other people like that.

I alienated my self stopped going to school stop going to places that reminded me of my episode... I get all that... I guess if it was PTSD I just need to know if this is normal. I'm not allowed to talk to other people about what's going on because I tried to talk to my friend and she asked if I talked to anyone and I told her. And she said it makes her want to die even more if I tell people. And I can't lie to the girl... So I don't really know if this is ok and it's my fault for not being more understanding at this point. If she even knew I was posting I would be a freakin goner...
 
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It is more than PTSD, I think there are more psychological issues than you realize. When there were already clearly signs that there was something not right, you guys moved in together. Not the best move. She is manipulating and using you. Read what you wrote, put your best friend in there as you. What would you tell him?

I would love to say get out, I think you guys moved too quickly. At the very least she needs a lot of professional help, and I kinda bet she will not agree because apparently it is your fault. Which it isn't. Insist she go for help, get some more for yourself. You do not deserve this lousy treatment. You do not need to enable her to continue.
 
It's not PTSD fuelling the knife attack. Or the cutting. Actually, I will tell you to get out until such time as she is working on herself. Safety first. You can't help her if you are dead. Or she is in jail. Or both.
 
She said she thinks that's what it is and emailed a therapist yesterday... She was seeing a therapist over the summer but stopped because she said there was nothing wrong. In her defense she does know it's messed up and says sorry. But within minutes of saying it she is back to bring hurtful. I want to leave but I have no where to go and I can't afford an apartment on my own. I'm scared she will hurt her self. But most of all. In the beginning she was amazing... Like the most awe inspiring woman and I stay because I'm hopefully that that person can come back... It is unsafe and scary at times though I just... I honestly don't know what to do...
 
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