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« on: November 05, 2018, 06:55:50 AM »

What Is Post-traumatic Relationship Syndrome?

Hi bpdfamily  Welcome new member (click to insert in post)

I recently came across this term online, looked it up and found this article.

I thought to share it in the hopes that we could perhaps get a conversation going that would help me to better my understanding of it. www.myresilientheart.com/thread/355/post-traumatic-relationship-syndrome 

PS. The above link for the article is to a closed family forum that I set up for learning, healing and growth purposes for myself and my family. I was very determined to bring clarity to what was going on with myself and my family, and this self empowerment project is helping me to do that alongside bpdfamily.

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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2018, 03:56:17 PM »

I thought to share it in the hopes that we could perhaps get a conversation going

im in!

im just hearing about it here though and not sure i have much experience with it though. what are your thoughts and experience with it fs?
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2019, 09:59:59 AM »

Hi once removed  Welcome new member (click to insert in post) thank you for your responce, sorry its took me so long to reply to you  

This is the bit that really stands out for me regarding Issues of trust.

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In the case of trauma by human design, one is confronted with the age old "existential dichotomy" of good against evil. One comes face to face with the existence of evil and the breakdown of a moral universe. Natural disasters, accidents, and life-threatening illnesses do not raise this issue as such events involve no intent to harm. Intellectual familiarity with evil is a universal phenomenon, but living it in the context of an intimate relationship, fortunately is not. This experience of evil/wrong infuses the problem of evil into one's subconscious mind, yielding a kind of soul knowledge that can never be forgotten - transcended in time perhaps, but never forgotten. Malevolent intent in the context of a close interpersonal relationship is particularly likely to create a maimed paradigm of interpersonal intimacy. Because one is more vulnerable in intimate relationships, serious violation of such basic principles as trust, honesty, non-maleficence, and fairness is likely to be more traumatic than in non-intimate relationships. For one's home; what is supposed to be one's harbour of greatest safety becomes a source of unfathomable terror. Lack of a sense of security and safety are associated with feelings of a loss of a sense of belonging in the world. Given that our intimate relationships are so strongly intertwined with our sense of identity and security, as human relations theorists and others have so aptly pointed out it is easily understood how feelings of loss of belonging and the generalized sense of unsafety, which are characteristic of PTRS, can be a result of the loss or alteration of one's basic understanding of intimate relationships.

Traumatic experiences can obviously lead to issues with trust, an issue likely to be problematic only in cases of traumatic Stressors of human design. Given that one's sense of basic trust develops early in life as a function of our interactions with caregivers, it is a long-held and well-ingrained part of our assumptions about our world. Because it developed in the context of some of the most important emotionally intimate relationships in our lives, it is tied very strongly to this type of relationship. Hence, trauma in this type of relationship, sometimes referred to as attachment trauma is particularly likely to create trust issues.

Issues of trust created by trauma in the context of an intimate relationship may become generalized to future relationships, creating problems in developing one's social support network. Terror of getting re-victimized in a new relationship is very common, which although unpleasant, helps prevent its occurrence due to the conscious awareness of it. Some forego new relationships, having great difficulty in initiating and/or maintaining them. However, given the lack of a tendency toward emotional numbing (which makes maintaining intimate relationships difficult), withdrawal from, or significant disruption of all social relationships is much less likely in PTRS than in PTSD. Others may struggle with trust issues and relationship difficulties only in the type of relationship in which the experience of trauma occurred. For example, trust issues in romantic relationships are particularly common for those who experienced trauma in this type of relationship. Similarly, sexual dysfunctions (e.g., loss of interest in sex, risky sexual practices, and infidelity issues) are strongly associated with a history of sexual abuse in an intimate relationship.

Not only does attachment trauma bring up issues regarding trust of others, but it also raises issues of trust of one's self by calling into question one's judgement of character. How one's view of others could be so erroneous becomes a puzzle, and if one's assessment of character was so wrong in the case of the perpetrator, how does one know that the assessment of the character of others in one's social world is accurate? Such self-doubt regarding one's perceptions of one's social world is another avenue via which impairment in one's social support network can occur for victims of PTRS.
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