Relationship The Ptsd Roller Coaster

[ARH10]

It is such an interesting feeling reading words written by someone else that feel like they could be coming from my own thoughts.

I experience something so similar. That sick feeling when you know you are on the downward cycle. It hits you like a punch in the gut because you were finally feeling like things might be different now.

I don't have any answers for you and for that I apologize. I have trouble maintaining boundaries, I have trouble with PTSD for so many reasons. It seems like an impossible feat somedays.

I try to focus on the times when he isn't triggered and those days my life seems near perfect. It keeps me going.

 

[Sephira]

ARH, I understand totally. I always hope that this isolation period will be his last, but I know it won't. This craziness is what I signed up for when I chose my sufferer. I have trouble maintaining boundaries too...especially because when I need to remind my sufferer of the boundaries, he's usually so stressed that reminding him at that moment just makes this worse.

I have trouble with PTSD too. It's robbed me in so many ways, it's robbed my sufferer. The man I love is still in there though, and slowly getting better. It will never be like it was, but it can be better than it is now one day, one month, one year at a time.

When my sufferer is well and not triggered, my days are golden. I live for them. They remind me that he still loves me, that even though he has changed the parts that make him *him* are still there.

To be with a person with PTSD is a choice, a tough one. Honestly though, I wouldn't want to be with anyone other than my beloved.

 

[ARH10]

Thank you for your words of inspiration and hope. I think hearing that is just what I needed. Thanks for sharing.

Keep up the positive attitude and positives will come your way.