Welcome Andrea,

Glad you found us. No need to be nervous about attending your husbands next session, as you will find it is most likely to see how you are coping, and secondly, extract information from you on his real behaviour, as we with PTSD often are not exactly in touch with our emotions nor behaviour patterns, thus physicians often turn to the spouses to get feedback, which also in turn helps the sufferer to see a more realistic aspect to what they are doing to their spouses, and the doctor can move in a more realistic direction to what needs immediate attention with him to help correct some of the home issues as well as PTSD by itself.

Doctors need a spouses input... it is essential into getting the sufferer treated correctly and highlighting certain points to them, and give then strategies and techniques to work upon and help overcome some of the basic home issues. How things are at home is important, because if a physician does all this great work on a person, then they send them home to world war III, all that work is just undone again.

PTSD needs a safe and friendly environment to help heal it, not a war zone.