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General Epiphany (things I've learned about myself from being a supporter)

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Woundedhealer

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As much as it hurts to be ignored by the one you love, I’ve come to see it as a gift in that I need to learn to take care of myself
Without my relationship with my sufferer, I would’ve carried on through life tending to everyone else’s needs. This has been an awakening for me and Im grateful I met him, loved him and am learning to love without attachment .
 
Oh I’ve learned so much! I’ve kicked and screamed along the way cause it hasn’t gone according to my plan but there lies the lesson... hands in the air and surrendering! Trying to trust that the universe has a plan for me
 
I am running around so frantic that I am distroying everyone piece by piece.
For as long a time as I continued to fail at definitively and once-and-for-all 'curing myself' of what I now know is (common, actually) symptomology, or how I reacted or acted or responded, I felt like a 'dumb bomb'- who knows what damage I would cause. Later, I came to think maybe I was too 'soft' on myself- causing damage and not even realizing it? Then, when I wasn't causing damage, I sort of resented that I still would through'myself' and by a ripple effect, if, for example, I ended up with suicide.:( Though it did stop me, sometimes. It is hard for a 'normal' person to understand, but usually not personal. It's really taken many steps & many years to get to even that, for me.

Now I think of not just the worst-case explanation, but maybe I'm actually trustworthy enough (or can trust myself more?), that it's just a blessing if I have good people in my life.

Maybe I shouldn't comment because I'm not quite sure what 'loving without attachment' exactly means, since I'm avoidant so I don't think I understand anything else? Which however isn't without attachment, exactly. But I do think it's terrific that you are learning to care for yourself @Woundedhealer , and if it came that way it is something good and necessary. And like @lostforgottensoul nice to hear someone's partner found something redeemable with ptsd involved (and by extension about the person themself with ptsd too).

Welcome to you. :)
 
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