I sometimes feel guilty and apologize for not being "normal," especially to my husband. We haven't even been married a year, and because of the PTSD, I'm so different from the girl he was dating. I feel like this isn't what he signed on for, having a wife so out of balance, like he married Dr. Jekyll and now got Ms. Hyde instead.

However, I try to temper this feeling with remembering that it's not my fault. It was his dog that bit me, and he ignored my fears before it happened...I think he feels guilty too, like he was in part the cause of my PTSD for his failure to hear me.

I also feel guilty regarding my friends, since I've mostly shut them out. I know some of them think it's personal and that I'm pointedly ignoring them, and that's so not the case.