Having PTSD is kind of like having malaria. It comes and it goes... sometimes for a long time. Then it can come roaring back seemingly out of nowhere. It could be that just being on your own in a store reminded you of how you weren’t allowed to do that before.

My husband now is a wonderful man who would never hurt me. However I still have occasional flash backs to the abuse of my first husband. And that was 30 years ago. It just happens....it’s not his fault and it’s not your fault. If this was just the one incident and you can’t afford therapy maybe just try to let it go...like you randomly got a bad case of the flu.

PTSD sucks. I hope you recover soon. Try to be kind yourself.