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"I understand everyone comes to (PTSD) class with different circumstances and degrees of horrors and traumas, but I find it confusing when people offer me advice on something they might have experienced in their own lives (death and grief for example) BUT know little of the effects of MY long-term childhood trauma via sexual, physical and emotional abuse among other wacky issues and how they are all tied in with death"
I felt the way you do too. My son's death initially triggered my PTSD. Now all kinds of issues from childhood, military service, and just life in general replay over and over with the slightest provocation. I felt totally unique and that no one could understand. My pain HAD to be worse than theirs. In one group session we talked about loss. The question was raised about the worse loss in our lives. To me it seemed petty when people talked about some of their losses. This was years ago, but now I'm beginning to understand that what they lost was just as tramatic as mine.
I see this when I read others posts here in this forum also and am reminded that, although the pain is there for different reasons, we all have pain. I'm not alone.
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