Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
Find support with others who have gone through a traumatic experience. Whether you have chronic or acute PTSD, we are here for you.
I have NEVER had a healthy relationship. Ever. My parents, my siblings, my partners, my former spouse, my current partner... none of it.
My parents are absolutely not supportive. I got divorced a year and a half ago and I feel like my ex got my family in the divorce. My mom just reshared my ex's wedding pictures with his new wife with a caption of "wow we have so many grandkids, I just love them all" - like, really mom? The guy who cheated on and abused your daughter? Those stepkids are your grandkids now?
My brothers and I have non-existent relationships. Barely know them. We did hardly anything together growing up and don't spend time together as adults.
My ex husband had me in what is essentially a cult, so when I left I lost any friends I had. I have nobody.
I have no friends, no family. I'm dating someone who is generally a great guy but he is so aggressive about things and just wants to cut everyone off like it's nothing. My teenager's have moved out of our house because they don't like him. He is very black and white and blunt and rude. My kids have never dealt with anything like that and they'd rather be at their dads. What if I lose my younger children too? It feel inevitable.
I am financially dependent on him now. I pay half and so does he, but I can't afford 100% of rent plus bills. I will lose my house and my kids if we split up. He would be fine, he makes almost twice what I do and has less than half the kids I do.
I am done with life. I have nothing and nobody. What if I just leave this world and let them all go on without me? I contribute nothing. I'm not helping. Nobody wants me. I quit. I think I finally fucking quit. What is the point anymore? What am I working so hard for? My kids don't want me, my parents don't want me, my partner doesn't want me. I have no purpose.
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
total empathy on the challenge of maintaining healthy relationships with a ptsd wounded heart. i often feel like i'm hopping from frying pan to boiling pot to air fryer to all the other kitchen hotspots in my efforts to find stability. it's an ongoing challenge, but it helps to have my therapy support network to lean on. ds is one of the nodes on that network. i hope it serves you as well as it has served me.
welcome aboard. i hope you find stabilizing companionship here. you are not alone.
for what it's worth
i let myself give up as many times a day as i want to. the detachment often leads me to a better approach.
The second one brought me here and also led me to the right therspist-- not just a general therapist but one specializing in PTSD. With him I finally saw the PTSD patterns in my life and here I got the support to choose to change them.
It can be done. If I could do it, anybody can, believe me. Sending you support as you sort.
What I've learned, and leanred long ago, is that the only way to get healthy is to get away from what caused the sickness (borrowing that from Al-Anon). I've given up a thousand times. I'll always have my scars, psycholgoical and physical. But I also am not the people who hurt me ----- and in many ways, that's all that matters. TO not repeat the patterns.