I think I have PTSD from an ex but im not sure
Okay here it goes, this is my first time talking about it so please excuse my rambling.
So I started dating This guy at the end of year 8 (for context I’m year 10 now) and it was going great! But then he started acting differently, he kept me away from all my friends and used his mums illness to keep me close and after two years of being trapped by it I broke up with him. Now a couple months ago I broke up with my boyfriend because he said “do it for me” and that must have triggered something in me because I stared at that message, had multiple anxiety attacks and panic attacks and ended up breaking up with him because of it. So I think my manipulative ex has given me some PTSD or trauma, I don’t know, can anyone help?
everyone experiences a form of trauma, for example, as a child if you went into the store and found candy and couldn’t get it, that might have been traumatic, this is called little t trauma and then we have big T Trauma that leaves mental wounds that are harder to get rid of. i’d be interested in speaking to you more about this in PMs (private messages) as someone who’s gone through an abusive relationship and has PTSD. if you don’t want to reach out specifically to me then that’s okay, we have plenty of other wonderful listeners who would be more than happy to listen if that’s what you’re needing :)