Read more at Laura Dennis' blog: http://www.laura-dennis.com/what-you-can-do-to-support-a-trauma-survivor/"...If you’re living with someone battling PTSD, make sure you have a friend you can vent to, and consider seeing a therapist occasionally who can give you your own set of coping tools and help keep you on track as a support person. It’s worth it, because the tremendous shift in the sufferer’s personality and identity will be a shock, to say the least. It’s common and understandable for friends and family to experience feelings of anger, fear, doubt and uncertainty, frustration, impatience, and irritability. They may feel stretched thin at times and unsure of how to go on...."
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