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| I have been diagnosed with PTSD and have been told that it wont go away unless I work on solving it. |
While I am not medically qualified to either confirm or disagree your doctor's diagnosis, to a certain extent the PTSD will never completely go away. Yes it is possible to increasingly develop a degree of control over it, but you will have to adapt to your tendency to overreact to negative stresses, rather than living your life entirely free of it. In a certain manner, the PTSD has now become a part of the person you are, even though your total self will never be defined solely by your stress disorder. I have reached a similar realisation about the important role which my CFS continues to play in my life, after having had it for nearly 27 years out of a total of 55.
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| Letting it be only destroys more and more. |
With due respect, you have already answered your own question. Doing nothing to respond to this perceived injustice is only going to progressively destroy what feelings of self worth you still have. Eventually I believe that if you continue to let your emotions bubble and boil just below the surface of consciousness that they will probably at the most inconvenient of times erupt into an emotional volcano, and in a person of your high moral principles this will ultimately kill your spirit within you. There are to be sure worse things in this world than physical death. Spiritual death arising out of a feeling that we have somehow betrayed our purpose for being here is I feel considerably more serious, and unfortunately it is more commonly found as well.
Keeping tight lipped and doing absolutely nothing about this will effectively make you a human doormat on which people can wipe their feet whenever they feel the need to do so in the future. But being openly aggressive and intentionally looking for a reason to fight when you do not already have all the facts is only likely to be counter-productive, and leave no possibility for a healing of either yourself or the relationship in question.
Your reading is consequently advising you to be more assertive or stand up for your own rights, instead of openly inviting further conflict. Avoid extremes of any behaviour, but take a more moderate and balanced approach towards solving your problems with the other person or people (often easier said than done). Do not wait until you feel that nobody will be offended or want to resist your efforts to improve the situation. If only 50% of the people around you agree with you, then you are probably doing better than most of us are.
While I know that you will probably not believe me, as having PTSD has much the same negative social stigma attached to it as does CFS, you really have nothing to feel ashamed about as conflicts are a necessary consequence of any close relationship with another human being. Do not make the very common error of trying to beat the other person at their own game of oneupsman or upswomanship, or allowing your own temper to get the best of your reasoning abilities, but instead of automatically reacting to them with more of the same, remember that they are just as fallible as we all are and send them loving thoughts instead of hatred. Some people would misinterpret this to mean that you are by so doing humbling yourself at the person's feet and making yourself even more vulnerable to their hurtful words and actions, when in fact true humility could potentially be your greatest source of inner strength. Make the Universal law that states that whatever energies you put out into your surroundings are returned to you in even greater measure work in your favour, rather than against you?
Hoping these insights will help you to decide what is the best possible future course of action to take with regards to this difficult person in your life,
Namaste,
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