PTSD and it's effect on your life.
Physical and emotional abuse can leave your scared and scarred for years and change you forever.
I honestly didn't realize I was being emotionally abused, I knew what my ex was doing wasn't right but I didn't see it for what it was, until I confided in a friend about my life. I tried to reach out to my ex's counselor and tell her how he was acting but she didn't say much about it probably due to confidentially.
What really started me to really realize something was going on was, he had forged some checks in the amounts of approximately $5,000. I had confided in his Dad and his dad informed me to not trust him with money in any way. That was hard to do when you were married to someone and I didn't know I had to watch everything he did with money and such. He had asked me for money but I gave him about $100 and he asked me within a day or so for more but he wanted alot more and I couldn't figure out what he needed money for, because I had been paying all the bills and gas and such. He wouldn't admit to forging the checks or what the money was for.
A few days after I had completely cut him off as much as I could financially, my son noticed a few of items were missing which he had obviously pawned. He finally admitted on New Years eve he was addicted to oxicotin and needed money for it. So that was where the money was going to his drug habit, which I thought he was over. He couldn't keep a job for very long due to his no it all attitude and or drug habit and he didn't want child support coming out of his check for his daughter He had stated many times that all women were bitches and they just wanted child support. I called mobile crisis and the police picked him up and he had a bunch of Xanax on him and some type of device to cut it so he could snort it. I was really upset and didn't want him back home, but it wasn't that easy. The police took him to the hospital and the hospital wouldn't keep him stating they don't treat drug addicts.
Fast forward several years and I went to a sleep Doctor for analysis and excessive daytime sleepyness and he diagnosed me with PTSD restlegs and Narcolepsy. I didn't realize I had PTSD but it made sense that I did, as I had been emotionally tramatized. I also ended up seeing a Rheumatologist which diagnosed me with RA and Fibromyalgia.
Alot of the issues I have are autoimmune related.
I also ended up being diagnosed with interstitial cystitis by Dr.
