To make this short I’m a male abusive relationship survivor. Last year I was in a relationship with a woman who was diagnosed bpd with narc traits and possible comorbidity. She cheated on me and abused me so badly in every way possible that I became suicidal for the first time in my life. I still go through depressive episodes because of it and have PTSD symptoms even though I did go through therapy. I was involved in CBT therapy because of my severe ADHD and before shit really hit the fan with my ex I had reached a point where life was trending up, I had a solid grip on my ADHD and how to manage it, and didn’t need my therapy anymore. After 2 years of therapy and meds I actually was about to be discharged from therapy but when everything happened and I told my therapist what I was going through she didn’t want to leave me, as she had worked with cluster b individuals before and knew how harmful they could be to others, so my therapy got extended for another 4 months.

A year and 1 month later I’m much better and no longer in therapy but as I said before I still have PTSD like symptoms and I want to date again because I love women but I won’t lie, my trust in them has really diminished as I can’t unsee the shit I saw in my ex those same traits actually are in a lot of women out there. I joined an abusive relationship sub on here and last night I got banned for participating in a sub that apparently was “misogynistic” this was the sub they were talking about lmao. I told them that you guys are far from misogynistic and the last thing I even commented was me leaving a brief story of my abusive relationship because the topic that the OP had decided to mention was about how female on male violence and abuse was overlooked, under reported and not taken seriously. I then mentioned that if they wanted to ban me that was cool but it shows me the sincerity of their group and who they actually are supportive of. This had no effect so I just left the sub myself. The sub was called /abusive relationships and they’re clearly only interested in supporting male victims of abuse as long as it doesn’t make women look bad even though the rates of abuse on men in relationships is pretty much identical to the rates of abuse on women…smh just thought I should share lmao happy men’s mental health month though