How do I explain my PTSD and how it affects me to my partner?
A few weeks ago I had some news that triggered a really bad spiral that I still am in the deep of. I found out my uncle who raped me as a child multiple times had gone to prison for doing things to other kids and getting so cocky that he flashed a group of teenage girls in public. For years after coming out with what he did to me I lived in shame because my family sided with my rapist and slandered me online to the point I was struggling to get work because whenever a prospective employer would look up my legal name, the posts my family made about me would come up. I only found out months after he was sentenced because I searched his name on google out of curiosity and found out what he did. No one who sided with him apologized to me or even so much as made an effort to contact me.
I tried talking about it today with my boyfriend and my friends, mostly about how everything made me feel and why I was struggling to bounce back and he kept interrupting me with his own opinions of the situation and in general not understanding what I was going through. He's really sweet and I love him but sometimes it takes using the right words to make things click into place and I'm having trouble finding them right now. Are there any good articles that I can sit down and read with him to make him understand better?