No, people don't understand what those with PTSD suffer. Even if the experts (psychologists) explain it to your family, they still won't "get it" and will want you to "JUST..."

And the fact that there is no cure for PTSD doesn't help one want to try to become human again... because we can't. I've been learning to live with it for 26 years and though I have progressed, I am still not a fully functioning human being...and I hate it. On "good" days I might be able to function for 4 or 5 hours, even around people and appear normal!

sorry I'm not much encouragement... I guess the only way to go is up. (When begins at the bottom of a pit...) But now they say it might be a gene that makes us susceptible...well that also means to me that it's not fixable. Ever.

I am the best I can be, today.... and tomorrow, even if worse, I will be the best I can be for tomorrow. That's all God requires of me I think. How can anyone do more?

At this rate, I will probably be 99 years old when I finally learn how to live again, just in time to die.