Hello everyone,
I'm Lillian and my boyfriend has C-PTSD. He has joined this forum recently and thought it might be good for me to check it out as well.
When he first told me he has PTSD, my first thought was "war zone". Military analogies were my only exposure to this disorder. From what he had told me about his childhood, war zone is an apt phrase.
I have a weekly appointment with my psychotherapist for different reasons (feeling of "not good enough" which came from childhood - nothing to do with trauma) and my boyfriend has a counselor he sees weekly. We are trying to find our way through his PTSD, and his depression and other challenges.
Through my initial research in the area, I do know that this is something that can be managed in due time. Curing the complex PTSD may be a dream that may happen but I think that if we can get to a place where we can manage the adverse effects of this "mental injury" as someone put it (sorry, cannot recall who) that would be a blessing. I also know that each scenario is different and I cannot make generalizations - whatever your given situations are they are true and valid because they are true to you.
I mentioned to him today that I will not check on his posts unless he wants me to and I will likely restrict most of my postings to the supporters forums. I think that whatever he does post is his business and although most of the time he would tell me anyway, I don't want him to feel that he *has* to tell me. In any case I am a lot more reserved than he is (I'm Japanese in heritage - being reserved is part of the package).
I know that we are on a long journey here (actually I already knew that before he even mentioned PTSD - I had told him once that I have to love the entire person, not just parts of him - that is what he deserves).
Thanks for reading.
I'm Lillian and my boyfriend has C-PTSD. He has joined this forum recently and thought it might be good for me to check it out as well.
When he first told me he has PTSD, my first thought was "war zone". Military analogies were my only exposure to this disorder. From what he had told me about his childhood, war zone is an apt phrase.
I have a weekly appointment with my psychotherapist for different reasons (feeling of "not good enough" which came from childhood - nothing to do with trauma) and my boyfriend has a counselor he sees weekly. We are trying to find our way through his PTSD, and his depression and other challenges.
Through my initial research in the area, I do know that this is something that can be managed in due time. Curing the complex PTSD may be a dream that may happen but I think that if we can get to a place where we can manage the adverse effects of this "mental injury" as someone put it (sorry, cannot recall who) that would be a blessing. I also know that each scenario is different and I cannot make generalizations - whatever your given situations are they are true and valid because they are true to you.
I mentioned to him today that I will not check on his posts unless he wants me to and I will likely restrict most of my postings to the supporters forums. I think that whatever he does post is his business and although most of the time he would tell me anyway, I don't want him to feel that he *has* to tell me. In any case I am a lot more reserved than he is (I'm Japanese in heritage - being reserved is part of the package).
I know that we are on a long journey here (actually I already knew that before he even mentioned PTSD - I had told him once that I have to love the entire person, not just parts of him - that is what he deserves).
Thanks for reading.
