Hello
I have only recently discovered I have complex PTSD having lived in a home with 2 alcoholic parents
I was “abandoned” when they were drinking and my emotional needs went unmet
I can live with this as I’m working through it with my therapist and reading Pete Walker’s book on CPTSD
But what I’m struggling with is the
disfunction and trauma dumping my ex husband and I brought to our
family…my ex also has Cptsd and he too is healing
Who’s not healing is my son that turned to heroin and overdosed at age 28…he passed in 2016…we tried SO hard to save him:rehabilitation therapy you name it
But we were treating the symptoms not the wound of his trauma
My daughter is in her thirties very successful doctor but struggling SO much emotionally from her CPTSD and said she finds family triggering ( I get that and I am working so hard to heal myself so I can have her in my life)
Wish I had known about CPTSD so many years ago
Now what ???
I have only recently discovered I have complex PTSD having lived in a home with 2 alcoholic parents
I was “abandoned” when they were drinking and my emotional needs went unmet
I can live with this as I’m working through it with my therapist and reading Pete Walker’s book on CPTSD
But what I’m struggling with is the
disfunction and trauma dumping my ex husband and I brought to our
family…my ex also has Cptsd and he too is healing
Who’s not healing is my son that turned to heroin and overdosed at age 28…he passed in 2016…we tried SO hard to save him:rehabilitation therapy you name it
But we were treating the symptoms not the wound of his trauma
My daughter is in her thirties very successful doctor but struggling SO much emotionally from her CPTSD and said she finds family triggering ( I get that and I am working so hard to heal myself so I can have her in my life)
Wish I had known about CPTSD so many years ago
Now what ???