How to deal with ptsd related to infidelity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TL/DR
Please don't use the term PTSD to define this.
Yes, infidelity is very difficult, and I am sure you are going through a lot, but it is not PTSD. My brother has PTSD after his tour in Iraq. You don't.

The body/brain doesn’t care what the trauma was or how “bad.” If one has symptoms of PTSD, you have PTSD.

[Anonymous]

In my case, the other woman would have been in kindergarten when my husband and I met in college. She knew he had a wife and kids. I said she probably had daddy issues. Husband was really offended by that because they had such a beautiful connection, it had nothing to do with anything like that. Later, I found out she was dealing with her father’s instability due to his mental illness. Men don’t only lie to their APs; sometimes they lie to themselves as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my case, the other woman would have been in kindergarten when my husband and I met in college. She knew he had a wife and kids. I said she probably had daddy issues. Husband was really offended by that because they had such a beautiful connection, it had nothing to do with anything like that. Later, I found out she was dealing with her father’s instability due to his mental illness. Men don’t only lie to their APs; sometimes they lie to themselves as well.

The last sentence is very true. The biggest lie is that they aren’t hurting anyone by what they are doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:TL/DR
Please don't use the term PTSD to define this.
Yes, infidelity is very difficult, and I am sure you are going through a lot, but it is not PTSD. My brother has PTSD after his tour in Iraq. You don't.

The body/brain doesn’t care what the trauma was or how “bad.” If one has symptoms of PTSD, you have PTSD.

It’s a compound thing too.

If someone has had previous traumas in their life, it doesn’t take a huge one to eventually crack and become ptsd.