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Understanding PTSD: Impact on Love and Relationships Among Veterans

PTSD can profoundly affect veterans' ability to feel and express love, resulting in significant emotional and relational challenges. After experiencing trauma, many veterans become cynical and withdrawn, leading to difficulties in forming and maintaining intimate relationships. The emotional isolation can detract from previously enjoyable activities and deter them from reconnecting with family and loved ones. This article explores how PTSD contributes to these feelings of detachment, shedding light on the struggles veterans face in navigating relationships post-trauma.

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Understanding PTSD: Impact on Love and Relationships Among Veterans

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  1. Chaplains and PTSD Strengthening the Chaplain Corps One Servant at a Time How PTSD Can Cause a Person to Lose the ability To Feel Love www.ChaplainsAndPTSD.com

  2. How PTSD Can Cause a Person to Lose the Ability to Feel Love The severity of this disorder lay in the veteran’s current perception of self and the world in which they live. After a traumatic event, a person suffering from PTSD becomes very cynical of the world around them. www.ChaplainsAndPTSD.com

  3. How PTSD Can Cause a Person to Lose the Ability to Feel Love According to Ainslie and Dominguez, this inability to feel love is also directly linked to other common PTSD disorders such as the need for isolation and emotional withdrawal, for example, because being around other people is extremely taxing to the sufferer. www.ChaplainsAndPTSD.com

  4. How PTSD Can Cause a Person to Lose the Ability to Feel Love “Forming and maintaining intimate relationships become very problematic. Indeed intimate relationships are often casualties of PTSD” www.ChaplainsAndPTSD.com

  5. How PTSD Can Cause a Person to Lose the Ability to Feel Love The joy of doing formerly enjoyable activities no longer exists. Ochberg further explains how these veterans cohabited with their spouses over the years after the war but never again shared the previous love and intimacy www.ChaplainsAndPTSD.com

  6. How PTSD Can Cause a Person to Lose the Ability to Feel Love Combat veterans with emotional symptoms of PTSD find reintegration problematic. They are no longer responsive, they lack involvement with family and loved ones and with the world in general, all of which can cause severe depression in the trauma sufferer. www.ChaplainsAndPTSD.com

  7. How PTSD Can Cause a Person to Lose the Ability to Feel Love While emotions assuredly exist within the PTSD combat veteran, the fact remains that they cannot express this within the overwhelming aloneness encompassing their psyche. www.ChaplainsAndPTSD.com

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