Has your husband talked with your therapist to understand how PTSD is effecting you?
I found that sometimes the anger comes out when we feel we are misunderstood and somehow expected to just get over it from others.
Are you seeing a therapist?
I know what you mean about the anger, it is a challenge to learn how to control it.
You have every right to be angry that something bad happened to you. But now you have to address it with a therapist and learn how to get past it. No, it is not easy and the most important part is to recognize all the things that may trigger your anger that you may not realize. That took me a while to figure out. There were behaviors that my husband presented that really triggered me and I was not really consciously aware of it. So it is important to really stop and think about what is triggering your anger to come out. Once you figure that out, then you can finally get a much better handle on it and even discuss it with your therapist and perhaps your therpist can help your husband learn to stop these behaviors and instead be more supportive. Also it is so important to make sure you have a place in your home that you can retreat to and it is known that you are not to be disturbed or invaded upon.
Thinking more about how I struggled was based on a sense of guilt that I just could not resume to being my old self and that it seemed my husband was waiting for that and I didn't feel I was truely ever going to be the same. Well, the truth is that no, we are not the same, can very sensitive to our personal boundaries more than ever. And that is where the husband needs to talk to the therapist so he can learn what that means. When that happens, there is a load taken off, because you have someone that is validating your struggle and you don't feel like you have to feel so presured anymore.
It really takes time and patience to identify these triggers. Once you do though, it is such a relief.
(((((Hugs))))
Open Eyes
Last edited by Open Eyes; Feb 01, 2012 at 02:14 PM.
|