PTSD - life is a war?

[IvyBush123]

Just because mental health board is not to active and it would be so nice if somebody told me I am not totally crazy. It would be so great if you could have a look at the thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/feeling_depressed/3797497-Life-is-a-war

Of course. I have PTSD.

Do you feel like this too?

Hmm. Read and digested. Thetes not much to ho on.

Obvious us why does your DP/DH have PTSD? How does it manifest and how does he usually react?

Not quite. It's more being in the same environment more than objects.

Mine are intrusive thoughts.

Tbh the therapist’s advice that he has to bin the trigger himself sounds a bit odd to me. Has the therapist explained their reasoning?

@75Renarde He has combat ptsd. It does not really manifest. He does not DO anything unusual but he avoids things. Typically he tries not to let people notice if he is avoiding something.
He feels afraid and disgusted.
He typically does not really react. He tries to keep a stiff upper lip but you notice he is stressed because he is sweating, he is read in the face, has wide eyes.

That's heartbreaking. And that makes total sense of the energy drink as well. Total.

Has he identified his most obvious triggers? Then explained them to you?

Does it make total sense? Not to me.

He knows his most common triggers and I know about them. He has not actually told me why they trigger him but other with ptsd, who have them same triggers, have told me.

Discussing triggers (his and theirs some if which are not shared by him) with people who have ptsd has scared me a bit. I now know that some think that the exits of cinemas are like death funnels, that not sitting with your back to the wall is dangerous, that construction sites are deadly and so on.
That makes you feel unsafe .

He just says when something triggers him but typically he doesn’t want to discuss it or tell me why because discussing his triggers triggers him.

Yes it makes sense. Could be be cause the drink is directly connected with the event or he recalled the memory whilst holding the drink.

I dont like trains anymore. I find them unsafe. However, I force myself to use them. This excess anxiety then manifests as a need to keep on checking my things.

I get the not talking about triggers as well. I removed myself from a FB group for precisely that reason.

Has he tried CBD oil?

Dh has the same kind of feeling about trains and even has the need to check on things, when stressed.

No, he hasn’t tried CBD oil. Have you?