My mom caused most of my PTSD in addition to a few events that happened as a young adult. This could very well go under the "Survivors of Abuse" forum as well. I was constantly emotionally abused by her my whole life. From being physically beaten when I was 8, to being written a letter, sometimes more than one every day telling me how I was such a horrible person while in college, to being called a mistake, to her directly telling a family friend when I was 11 or 12 that she's finally be happy when I moved out, to her completely ignoring me, pretending I didn't exist for as much as a week at a time when I got her angry, to her finally "disowning" me when my dad died 3 years ago. A never ending constant cycle that spread to every other facet of my life. Sorry for the gigantic run-on sentence but that's how it feels....one running in to another for my entire life.