1. She Blamed It on My PTSD Pt. 02


    Date: 4/18/2024, Categories: Loving Wives, Author: byCatcher78, Source: Literotica 

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Second in a series

https://literotica.com/s/she-blamed-it-on-my-ptsd

In part one a young married sailor returning early from pre-cruise (Carrier Qualifications for pilots) as part of an Attack Squadron (A-7B) aboard the USS Oriskany CV-34 to discovered his young wife getting fucked in their tiny duplex an affair of some duration. He banishes her and he attends college and finally meets another beautiful woman only to discover that he was the instrument of a woman's premarital fling. He is successful financially, but in no other way.

Just a note about PTSD generally and then specifically to the story. There is a part of everyone's brain called the Amygdala (A-mig-du-la) a small part of your brain that processes emotions, memories and learning. It also links to other brain areas that control fear, aggression, reward and social communication. People that have PTSD, have a misfiring Amygdala as if it is overloaded. The memories and their pain are ever present during conscious states as well as dreams. The pain of loss never abates. There is hope and the VA is using as treatment a therapy called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. I can attest that is as close to miraculous as I'm likely to see. Simply the pain is gone. It is now standard use in many cases with Veteran's Administration.

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    ... character's specific trauma relates to unrelenting physical abuse as a child, difficulties around his marriage and other relationships, homelessness and finally intense shame around his involvement with nuclear weapons. The character had not had any therapy that helped.

Comments on writing style: I am trying to evoke some stream of consciousness style for first person efforts. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Dharma Bums and On The Road both by Jack Kerouac. It's not an affect or bad editing per se, rather when people talk or think under stress it's not like a first grade primary book See dick cum. See cum on Jane's face. That said, I will try to execute better. Thanks for the helpful remarks and to the others thanks for reading.

Thanks Catcher78

Living in Boston was fruitful. My career flourished. I was not a recluse. I dated, if you could call hook ups with high end escorts taking to Christmas parties and restaurants, to avoid the gossip about being gay (I have queer friends so no homophobic slights meant).

More commonly massage therapists would come to my townhouse most weekends. I had two or three regulars who would make my tows curl. Late summer there was a small place on Cape Cod, where for two weeks, recently divorced woman (grandmother had the kids for a couple of weeks. If I was lucky the wife of a colleague who was cheating on his wife overseas. One gal especially liked being seeing on my arm in Hyannis at Spanky's Clam Shack.

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