Relationship Desperate Sister Needs Advice For Bro

[keifer]

The book is: When someone you love suffers from posttraumatic stress: what to expect and what you can do by Claudia Zayfert and Jason C. DeViva

 

[Abstract]

This is one of the biggest things that will help you have a relationship with him and avoid saying or doing things that tend to be very upsetting for those with PTSD.

It is that time in and of itself makes no difference. Non traumatic experiences improve with time because they slip into the past. Even potentially traumatic experiences that haven't resulted in trauma do too.

According to our brains when we are traumatised then it isn't in the past. We are forever in the trauma and it is happening now - again and again and again. Until we find a way to refile it in the right part of the brain. In the part that allows it be in the past.

It's not like a broken bone that can heal and time is the solution. It is more like a chunk of bone is gone and until we find a way to make a bone graft, healing won't happen.