Relationship Cptsd

[Snowflakes]

Simon12.....I'm sorry I didn't see your post when I wrote mine. It wasn't there when I started my last post. If I saw it, I wouldn't have written it. I'll leave it up because someone else may find value in it.

That said, I'm sorry you are hurting and I hope your anger subsides.

Take care.

 

[simon12]

I am not going into therapy to help someone else who is not in therapy. No. No-one deserves that.

I'm out.

 

[simon12]

Simon12.....I'm sorry I didn't see your post when I wrote mine. It wasn't there when I started my la...

All the supporters here sound like a bunch of codependents. So desperate to stay, that they sacrifice their own mental health, to the point where they need therapy themselves. Its a joke.

 

[Sweetpea76]

Being codependent is one thing. Understanding how a mental illness works and making healthy adjustments in a relationship is another.

PTSD relationships take a lot of work. They're not for everybody. That is totally fine.

 

[Sweetpea76]

That's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

Nobody is trying to talk you into staying in a relationship that does not work for you. Nobody says that you don't have the right to be pissed off and sick of the way you were being treated. Sometimes the best thing to do is end it, especially if your sufferer is untreated and unwilling to ever get treatment. No matter how hard a supporter may work, if their partner isn't healthy enough to function in a relationship, then it will never work out. You can't make a relationship work all by yourself. Your feelings and opinions are valid too.

However, just because your relationship with a C-PTSD sufferer didn't work out, it doesn't mean that all PTSD relationships are doomed or unhealthy.

 

[simon12]

In the end its all bullshit. PTSD, CPTSD... if they were intelligent in the first place, they would be far less likely to get PTSD following trauma. Don't believe me? Just google intelligence PTSD.

 

[Sweetpea76]

Ok... this thread has run its course.

 

[anthony]

Just google intelligence PTSD

What you're saying is incorrect. Intelligence is one aspect of resilience to mental health, but nobody is actually resilient to mental health. There are people here with doctorates and higher, who have PTSD / CPTSD. Many experts in trauma have mental health issues, just look them up and read their stories. These are all highly intelligent people. There are CEO's, doctors, onwards, who suffer mental health issues. Socio-economic factors are the most likely candidate for reducing resilience, not intelligence. Intelligence is linked to competence, competence is linked to typically having the money and knowledge to talk about issues, to seek professional therapy services, when you know there are thoughts in your mind that just aren't right. Even then, the smartest of people in the world kill themselves due to mental health -- leading cause, depression.

You best be armed with actual scientific fact if you want to post such nonsense here, as though fact. Do yourself a favour and learn the science and fact about trauma, PTSD and the associated symptoms and issues. Get yourself a copy of The Handbook of PTSD: Science and Practice, at your local bookstore / Amazon. That will make you more intelligent on trauma and PTSD subjects in a single text. A good head start that one.