Thanks for taking a read Anna. I'm never sure about writing certain topics as so many people just can't relate and then I go ahead anyway because it really doesn't matter if everyone or no one relates...It just matters that I do.
Having said that, as I wrote the last few paragraphs I had a feeling you'd get it if you had the chance to read.
Thanks for your compliment, it's much appreciated.
I know what you mean but you are right, screw if others get it. Often they just can't because they never touched that world and one can't blame em for that.
It will always be a scar, a wound that rips open from time to time, it will never leave. We have good days but it is always lingering in the depths of our minds and souls. You can't treat it away.
Ask me how much I suffer to this day by being surrounded by people not getting it a bit. My fam never got it and my sister to this day tells me all those meme claims "Get over it" "Enjoy your life" "It's just your thinking" "Think positive" blah blah blah. It was the biggest burden and a big part of the marriage breaking apart being surrounded by people not grasping it at all. You are completely alone in a situation like that.
Yep exactly and military wives/partners suffer right along side the veteran.
For sure. The spouses also face society blaming them, not understanding, ridiculing or downplaying it. Because you are not on the battlefield why are you suffering? PTSD with spouses is even less accepted as PTSD in active duty.
Society don't wanna hear about it, maybe because it puts the mirror in front of them showing that there are people suffering for them in a way.
Ahhhhh big topic and issue till today.
This is very true and very sad.