Thanks Lee, I think acceptance and understanding are as important for the people around the person suffering with PTSD is as important as for the person themselves to come to grips with rebuilding a decent life. Dare I mention, ......... the male ego?

You and your husband may want to check out a local chapter of Point Man Ministries. It's a worship group consisting of combat vets and they help each other deal with their past.

There isn't one here, where I am, and although I'm not overly religious, I'd certainly attend if a group were present.

Now THAT, I'd never heard of,great information ,thank you bdyer!

Absolutely!

It was the hard work of the survivors of Vietnam, that gave us the proper diagnoses and treatment. It was called "shell shock" before veterans from Vietnam.

I developed PTSD from taking care of two people with it. My husband is a survivor of of the world trade center, he worked on the 90th floor of the north tower and my daughter is a rape and abduction survivors from when she was a 15 yrs old.

Once in a blue moon the sound of a telephone sometimes triggers PTDSymptoms for me! We have all been in therapy, I had to change the type of ring on my home phone to help me.

For the original poster it also sounds like your husband is having night terrors, do not try to wake him! Besides his PTSD it also could be a sleep distrubance.