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<blockquote data-quote="Tanya M" data-source="post: 718976" data-attributes="member: 18516"><p>I don't see how we as parents cannot go through some PTSD. I know I did. I would be coming home from work and would be 2 blocks from my house when my heart would start racing and I would feel sick to my stomach. I never knew what I would be walking into when I got home. I lost count of how many times I would come home to find the whole house ransacked because my son was looking for money to steal. The time I came home and found he had taken a hammer to beat a huge hole in our locked bedroom door. The time he ran away and cut the screen and broke a window to get back in the house while we were at work. The time I came home to find he took a butcher knife and hacked away at my kitchen counters. </p><p></p><p>Every morning I open the curtains to our sliding door and there was a time, probably a year that I was always afraid my son would be standing there. That is PTSD for sure.</p><p></p><p>For me, having strong boundaries in place keep me safe. They keep me from falling down the rabbit hole.</p><p>We each have to do what will make us feel safe and for me, detaching was a huge part of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanya M, post: 718976, member: 18516"] I don't see how we as parents cannot go through some PTSD. I know I did. I would be coming home from work and would be 2 blocks from my house when my heart would start racing and I would feel sick to my stomach. I never knew what I would be walking into when I got home. I lost count of how many times I would come home to find the whole house ransacked because my son was looking for money to steal. The time I came home and found he had taken a hammer to beat a huge hole in our locked bedroom door. The time he ran away and cut the screen and broke a window to get back in the house while we were at work. The time I came home to find he took a butcher knife and hacked away at my kitchen counters. Every morning I open the curtains to our sliding door and there was a time, probably a year that I was always afraid my son would be standing there. That is PTSD for sure. For me, having strong boundaries in place keep me safe. They keep me from falling down the rabbit hole. We each have to do what will make us feel safe and for me, detaching was a huge part of that. [/QUOTE]
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