Category: Borderline Personality Disorder, Mental Health, Mental Illness, PTSD, Resources
Tags: #Unfaithful, affairs, affairs causing ptsd, anxiety disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, BPD, Depression, Mental Illness, Nons, PTSD
***Trigger Warning***
I’ve been debating this post for a while. How to approach the subject? The fact that I hate talking about it. Am I the only one that feels this way? But day after day I hear from people that have lived through an affair and the devastating effects it can have. I think as a whole society downplays the emotional damage affairs have on people. We link things like PTSD to other disturbing things people live through and say that there are obvious reasons why they would have these reoccurring issues. To give some prospective I’ll set the stage with a high level of my past. I started to run with a rough and bad crowd very early in my life (about age 13), in my teenage years I witnesses and lived through some horrible things. I have had guns pointed directly at my head on multiple occasions, I’ve had a knife at my throat, bullets miss me, almost take my own head off because I was too messed up with a gun, I’ve OD’d and seen people OD, seen stabbings, been arrested, etc… Let’s just say I’ve seen more horror and violence then some soldiers in war. But none of that effected me in the way my wife’s affair did. Not even close. Read More
