hi everybody..
quik intro, i'm seeking help to see what i can do to best deal with my 22yr old son's PTSD journey.
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be careful reading, may contain triggers, although i am trying to be VERY careful, TRUTH.
ok, i'll try to simplify a bit just to be sympathetic to everybody here. bless his heart, he has been so very strong. my ex was terribly abusive to all of us, him, me and my daughter(now 17) i have recently learned that there may have even been some SA involved with my son.
he has used SI to deal with it for several years now. but in the past year, everything has come to a head. he has been in therapy for 2 years, i have had him online on a PTSD support board (he said absolutely NOT to in-person support groups for now), and he is on zoloft, a ceiling dose.
i totally get why he blames me, and he does. i just dont know how to help him through. to keep going.
the rages sometimes get pretty...big lately. no he doesn't get violent. so far, he just says stuff. and i'm trying to take everything he can dish out, cause frankly he has every right and its pretty much deserved.

but he is at a standstill.....is there anything that you have dealt with that HELPED you through when you got really bad? something that a parent could do?

he has isolated himself in his bedroom, went on med. leave from his job cause he attacked 2 people, (i really love this spell checker!) won't go to college classes, only talks to people from his online support board on the phone...never friends he had around here(i say had cause he only had a few and they have pretty much left him alone by now). now, during one of his rages he informed me that i dont have the right to even ask him to do simple things around the house.....take out the trash, or give me a lift to the store - he actuly told me to walk and its 90degrees here(i cant drive, due to brain damage caused by cancer) etc. which honestly i didn't ask hardly at all because of his problems.

we just got him back home from a weird trip to NY(his stepfather and i paid to get him home, no questns asked, we are just happy to have him home, the whole thing freaked us out ) where he almost married a 33yr old woman (i'm 37, btw, yeh do THAT math) from that support board and he had never met her before! just talked on the phone!

please help. any suggestions at all would be soooooooooo appreciated, truth.
i'm at my wits end.