This
article highlights a very serious outcome from a traumatic divorce. Going to
couples therapy before things become really awful always helps; but when
someone has been diagnosed with mental illness the therapy should be more
intense than usual. If you are going through something similar to this woman in
the article, make sure that you speak to a professional therapist as soon as
possible.
“Once you go through a high conflict divorce you are never the same,” said Dana in an interview I had with her a few months ago.
Dana divorced her husband in 1999. Her ex, Jim, had been diagnosed withNarcissistic Personality Disorder and he has made Dana and their children’s lives miserable for 14 years. Due to the long, drawn out legal battle and Jim’s emotional abuse before and since the divorce, Dana was recently diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She is being treated as an inpatient and discussed what life has been like for her over the last few years.
“I feel as if I’ve been in the middle of a war zone for an extended period of time. I’ve lived with daily fear for years; there has been no relief because some sort of conflict with my ex was always lurking around the corner,” Dana says. "I didn’t have time to process one event before I was dealing with another one."
"When divorced from someone like my ex, you don’t have time to stop, process your feelings, grieve and move on," she continued. "You have to have your guard up at all times, be focused and ready for what is coming next and you learn quickly that there will be something coming.”
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