Not fubar!! What you are recognizing is empathy. Yes, PTSD makes it difficult to believe and trust everything! However, to find others who truly care can reach deep within us and touch that desire for someone to understand and make it all right again.

IDK if my original posts still exist (in the other ptsd forum, because someone is supposed to go through and delete old posts or something) but there were many times I posted and then wish I hadn't. Mind you, it was a new forum and almost no one posted there but me then, and others who had ptsd but from childhood causes were still in the Abuse forum.) It's more frustrating, and was then, to post and not have someone understand. But their posting back acted like they did, when it was so obvious that they truly didn't. To figure out how to accept that kind of "help" that really wasn't support in the knowledgeable sense, wasn't easy. I still have issues with it now...but take it at face value as someone who wants to give support, they just aren't sure how to.

The reason for this special forum is so you can post about your experiences and those who want to read about PTSD issues but not about war, can stay in the other forums. I actually get these better than the others because I identify with your experiences.