C.A.R.E: Collaborative Affair Recovery Experience...for women
Even just the suspicion of betrayal has a profound impact on a person's functioning. Suspicion of relationship betrayal is associated with depersonalization, sleep disturbance (insomnia, nightmares), hypervigilance (Dean 2011; Weigel & Strout, 2021). Infidelity is associated with depression and high risk behaviors (Cano & O'Leary, 2000) including, alcohol and/or drug use, eating disorders, retaliatory infidelity and unprotected sex (Field, et al., 2013) . CALL or TEXT to get started... |
Infidelity and PTSD
Infidelity causes many of the same symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD and profoundly impacts day-to-day functioning, health and well-being (Coop-Gordon, 2020). A study by Lonergan et al. (2020), suggests between 30 and 60 percent of betrayed adults experience PTSD, which in many cases requires psychological and/or medication intervention. Post Infidelity Trauma can make you feel... It's like my brain keeps going over and over the details and I can't make it stop... I am on high alert - always checking, looking to see if something is going on I don't know about... I can't eat, I can't sleep, I am in a rage one moment, then sobbing the next... I feel like I am losing it - this is the worst pain I have ever felt... 
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