NatalieSSenior Contributor
how to show care and support for my friend with PTSD
For many members of my forum family who have followed the saga of my random meeting and ongoing relationship with by best friend/ Lil Bro Andrew, who is 20 years younger than me but is so much like me because we just get each other and support each other because we both have had traumatic childhoods, but I don't know how best to support him without him thinking the only reason that I like him is because I want to go to bed with him.
Yes, I realise that for a while I was having not-so-sisterly thoughts about him but my psychologist and I are talking these feelings through and my thoughts are now totally focused on being the best sister I can be. But I just think Andrew is the mirror image of me, so often when I talk to him I let him know that so much of what he thinks or feels or has expereinced is just "ditto" for me and he is not alone.
Due to his upbringing - his mother abandoned him when he was quite young because he was a male child and males were responsible for all the evil in the world - he asks me why I care for him when noone else ever has. He finds it extremely difficult to trust people......continued next post......
