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How Untreated CPTSD Can Ruin Your Life, And Relationships
The older you get the more it progresses if left untreated.
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(CPTSD), is generally caused by repeated early childhood stressful events while the child is developing. It can also be caused at any age in life when you are exposed to repeated traumatic, stressful situation.
As for me, the relationship doesn’t scare me, I scare myself. I scare that my behaviors, reactions and triggers will hurt the person I’m with. If not hurt them, at the very least frustrate them.
CPTSD is a real thing, many suffer from in silence, or know they have it, but never seek treatment.
You know what kind of hell it is to have serious abandonment issues at 49 years old, and being a male? Not just hell, but the embarrassment that comes with it?
I constantly question how I feel? One feeling can take on 50 different explanations as I try an rationalize, justify or just make sense of what I am feeling, and usually I can’t. I’m trying to keep myself, and my mind from jumping off the “cliff” so to speak.
I don’t trust how I feel, and more so I don’t trust others, especially romantic partners. Even if someone crosses a boundary of mine, if I have one, I will simply talk myself…
