Good morning everyone,

Its funny, I always find it amusing to see posts on other websites about how to care for people with PDs and PTSD.

Why you ask? Because nobody in my life ever cared about me in that way. From my family completely denying my mental health disability, to my ex husband continuing to be verbally abusive. We won't get into living with my 16 year old daughter. In regards to her I've had to set boundaries with her: I've made it very clear to her that my PTSD is not her responsibility however I will not have her mocking me about it. She's not interested in reading an electronic book for teens whose parent has PTSD, she advises me to go off my medication and smoke marijuana instead, and she denies her own possible PTSD so that's where that's at.

I guess that's why I'm so hard and why I get along so well with military veterans. In my life if I do have PTSD its my fault, and if I don't (meaning I'm making it up) , well I can't even address that one.

Its challenging to me to encourage others to care about people in their lives with PTSD and personality disorders when the people in my life who are or aren't diagnosed are either in denial or are in denial.



I hope this post doesn't offend anyone, that's not my intention. I'm just venting because I'm frustrated.

This forum, the C-PTSD forum, is relatively safe for me, I hope it stays that way.