How do I help my girlfriend with trauma?
How do I help my girlfriend with trauma?
How to help a partner with trauma
- Educate yourself and your partner on trauma. All of the information above is essential for developing compassion for your partner.
- Identify your partner’s triggers (and your own)
- Learn to scale distress.
- Understand your own boundaries.
- Know when it’s time to get help.
How can I help my partner with complex PTSD?
How To Help Someone With Complex PTSD (CPTSD)
- Remind Them About How Their Nervous System Works. Its power to color experience is awesome.
- Have Empathy- It’s A Key Way To Help Someone With Complex PTSD. It’s important for you to stay calm when your loved one is triggered.
- Remind Your Loved One: People Recover.
How does complex trauma affect relationships?
In addition, people with C-PTSD often feel very isolated and misunderstood. To them, no outsider can ever grasp what they’ve endured and how it has scarred them. As a result, they can set very strong boundaries that will hamper the growth of your relationship.
Can trauma affect relationships?
Both single-incident trauma and complex trauma can impact relationships with co-workers, friends, spouses, family members and the relationship with self. If you experience some of the following symptoms, trauma may be affecting your life2: Irritability or chronic anger. Anxiety.
What should you not say to someone with cPTSD?
What not to say to someone with complex PTSD
- Get over it.
- People have been through worse.
- You’re overreacting.
- But that was so long ago.
- Things weren’t that bad.
- My friend went through something similar, and she got over it.
- You’re too sensitive.
- You just have to face your fears.
What do you say when someone shares trauma?
What’s most important is the therapist’s authenticity and sincerity.
- “Thank you for trusting me enough to share such a personal and difficult story”
- “I appreciate the courage it took to share that with me.”
- “I want you to know that what happened wasn’t your fault.
- “I am so sorry that you were hurt/mistreated/harmed.”