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Complex PTSD and Trauma
Someone asked me to post up this website, it's got a lot of good information on complex PTSD and trauma and some I think on BPD.
https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/ There's certainly a lot of things that resonate with me. There is also a ACE test - Adolescent childhood experience test. https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psy...-questionnaire http://www.theannainstitute.org/Find...CE%20Score.pdf |
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Re: Complex PTSD and Trauma
I knew someone from this site who had PTSD. The effects are dreadful
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Re: Complex PTSD and Trauma
I have mentioned to a Dr previously that I think I could have a degree of complex PTSD. I had read about it before and the case was regarding some unresolved traumas as a child.
From my understanding the difference between the complex and regular PTSD is that PTSD is usually something specific and the effects are a relatable period after the situation. Whereas complex PTSD isnt so specific and maybe not as individually extreme but its an unhealed repetative trauma that could be from many years ago. One of the big factors in the case I was reading about was regarding emotional neglect and abuse as a child. |
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I had a chat with a pathfinder CPN the other week and she said ppl keeping bandying different labels at me so i'm always none the wiser.
When i said about complex PTSD and personality disorder she said there basically the same thing. Just some psychologists/shrinks term it cPTSD and some PD. Which I found a bit of a revelation to be honest. |
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Re: Complex PTSD and Trauma
I was diagnosed with complex PTSD 2 years ago, it makes sense to me now delving back into my childhood living with a neurological disability plus the pre verbal and adolescent trauma I experienced.
I believe many people do not realize they have complex PTSD from their childhood. Social anxiety is a symptom of my traumatic neglectful childhood, so it maybe a similar case for some people on here who have experienced trauma, neglect or abandonment when they were younger, no matter how mild or severe. We all react to traumatic and stressful situations in so many ways that can set the foundations of developing mental health difficulties if not addressed and treated early on in life. Edit - This is an interesting Youtube channel about Complex PTSD - CPTSD & AVOIDANCE: Do You Struggle in GROUPS? (Resilience Series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSqxUvoVnk Edit - Just like to add, dissociation (spacing out, disconnecting etc) is a common theme for people with PTSD. I do it often, I may pace around, stuck in a cycle of rumination about certain events that happened to me in my past or I sit and stare at an object for a few minutes feeling numb. |
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https://www.verywellmind.com/ptsd-an...sorder-2797528
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Interesting insights.
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There's rather a lot of detail here. Hm. |
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This is very interesting.
I don't think I suffered too much as a child. But I was very sensitive so maybe what I did "suffer" affected me more than I realize, as to me, at the time, it was a big deal. |
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I've realised (it's taken a while!) that the social anxiety symptoms are pretty much emotional flashbacks to times when I felt I was being rejected by peers or parents or whoever. I think some of us are naturally less robust than others, so it doesn't take as much. How to deal with them is ... the next challenge.
^^Well, some people say an invalidating environment can cause problems, so it's not just about obviously abusive things. |
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https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/int...-stuck-1211145
This is a fantastic article. Wow, this is what happened to me for nearly two decades. |
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Very good point ^
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@nanuq
As you know this is what I've been thinking myself. I do have SA, I fit all the symptoms for SA. But my SA seems to have developed more or complicated a lot from the cptsd type things that fit my overall development and symptoms more. |
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^^^I do have the negative thoughts, but it's not just about the thoughts. Sometimes even before the negative thoughts have time to take hold it's panic stations. There have been some times the CBT homework has helped, it's variable.
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^^^^ I think you're right about that. Knowing what you might be dealing with is important to be able to get the right types of help or know how you might make progress.
For example I watched a talk by a woman who suffered very badly with anorexia for many years and was in hospital in her 30s and was actually getting worse with the normal treatment plan. While she was there she was assessed and diagnosed with autism and her treatment team were able to alter her plan to take this into account and she finally started to improve. She is now recovered from her eating disorder but if the professionals treating her hadn't considered assessing her for other things maybe she never would have been able to make that kind of progress. |