It’s a two way street. PTSD traumatizes the spouse, friend, and child of the person suffering from PTSD too. Obviously right? So humans are encouraged to live in the world of ideas or black and white solutions prescibed by psychiatrists, so we are not even instinctually able to process what happens when our fellow humans have an attack of PTSD, usually because we aren’t paying atention to the “NOW” in the first place, and when we see our fellow Human Being acting “irrationally” from our perspective, having ignored the “Signs” of the attack, we lash out with the typical tribal reaction to nonconforming behavior, either banishment, or some form of interogitave questioning, prior to a request or a demand for behavior modification. “Stop crying! What are you so bummed out about?

Best defense for a PTSD sufferer is to know their own triggers, continually remind their friends of their condition so they won’t be caught off guard, daily meditation and yoga, and large amounts of self prescribed Medical Marijuana, massages, hot baths, sex etc. with the occasional guided mushroom trip in a very safe environment.