Hi Kay,

Pleased to see that we haven't scared you away. I too am a lover of dogs but have two cats at the moment - Sassi (female lilac burmese) and Baloo (brown male burmese) and they are beautiful.

Must be tough living without understanding of your condition, family obviously want to help and don't like to see you in distress but without having PTSD themselves it is very confusing. From my own perspective, as the partner of someone with PTSD, you want to help but you are never quite really sure which is the best approach. Does one member of your family help the most? Would they be prepared to read books to gain more information? I found that helped me quite a bit. I don't have it but I still live with it daily. The EMDR sounds promising and hopefully that will help aid your healing a little bit.

As for your post, you posted it in the right place - at least as far as I can tell. My husband is the computer geek! And as for the chat, feel free to log on anytime. Either my husband or I will check the forum during the day.