Hi Linasmom,

I had a look, but it looks like it's the wikipedia entry - which I've already read and found lacking. I'll keep looking and maybe try to find the book by Judith Herman that seems to be cited all over the place.

I've been pretty open about what I'm going through - but of course initially didn't know what it was. PTSD hit me full blast when I started this relationship which was the first real one since my traumatic incidents of which many occured in the last relationship. So it's a slightly different situation than for many of you. When we started dating I didn't know I had PTSD - and then it hit me, and I was completely freaked out and he had no idea what was going on.