The Waves: How to Live With Your Partner’s PTSD

On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior editor Shannon
Palus sits down with writer and political scientist Virginia
Eubanks. They talk about Virginia’s New York Times magazine essay ,
“His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It,” and how the condition
is more widespread than most people realize, even as terms like
“trauma” and “triggered” are tossed around cavalierly. Later
in the show, they talk about why you shouldn’t give unsolicited
advice to people living with PTSD—and what kind of support
caregivers of people with PTSD really need.    In
Slate Plus: Why Virginia wanted to write her New York Times
essay, and whether the COVID-19 pandemic is, technically
speaking, a traumatic event.  Further Recommended Reading:
What to Say When Someone Tells You They’re Chronically Ill by
Rachel Meeks Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story by Gabriel Mac
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by
Shannon Palus, Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your
comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com
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