This is my first post, so let me explain. I am a man in my early 40's, four years ago I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD and depression, stemming from a two year period of repeated sexual abuse by a male teacher. This has gone through the criminal courts, he plead guilty to all charges and is currently in prison. There is a civil case being initiated by my solicitors to take to task the various institutions and policys which allowed this man to abuse children even though there were previous concerns and allegations about him.
Anyway, the upshot of this, the last fours years, since I made my statement to the police, and since I finally admitted to myself that this abuse had actually happened the way it did, have been a living nightmare for me with two suicide attempts which hospitalised me, one actually put me in intensive care, followed by two inpatient stays in a brilliant Mental Health Institute, continous weekly counselling and monthly visits to a psychiatrist, along with various and somtimes changing medication treatments. My current state of mind is cloudy but by far the most hurtful outcome of all of this is that my wife, my rock, my partner for over 20 years (since our teens) has for the sake of her own mental health, had to leave me. The stress of looking after our ill teenage daughter, and the constant support she has givem to me (in her words she said she lived in constant fear of the phone call, or coming home to find me dead), has taken too much of a toll on her mentally and she had a nervous breakdown, she has moved to live with her sister nearby, and our contact is at the moment minimal. I suppose my question is, can I get the woman that I love more than life itself back?
Anyway, the upshot of this, the last fours years, since I made my statement to the police, and since I finally admitted to myself that this abuse had actually happened the way it did, have been a living nightmare for me with two suicide attempts which hospitalised me, one actually put me in intensive care, followed by two inpatient stays in a brilliant Mental Health Institute, continous weekly counselling and monthly visits to a psychiatrist, along with various and somtimes changing medication treatments. My current state of mind is cloudy but by far the most hurtful outcome of all of this is that my wife, my rock, my partner for over 20 years (since our teens) has for the sake of her own mental health, had to leave me. The stress of looking after our ill teenage daughter, and the constant support she has givem to me (in her words she said she lived in constant fear of the phone call, or coming home to find me dead), has taken too much of a toll on her mentally and she had a nervous breakdown, she has moved to live with her sister nearby, and our contact is at the moment minimal. I suppose my question is, can I get the woman that I love more than life itself back?
