Yeah, and see that is just it. I had all of the symptoms of PTSD but they had kept me awake as well - opening and closing the garage door every 2 hours. Doctors didn't believe what had happened to me. They kept saying 'why would anyone do that to someone?' Really????Yes, because I clearly had ptsd.
So that's the thing. I was flashing, I was going catatonic (which nobody believed), I was terroring (or so I thought - it was actually them terroring me in the middle of the night), so much stuff. But my symptoms absolutely showed I had PTSD. I wouldn't have been able to say that they physically or sexually abused me though. And I think that didn't count at the time, but am not sure if it does now.
Yeah, it is just so subjective though when relying on a clinicians proper diagnosis. And if I had not been diagnosed with PTSD, I would not have been able to get disability. GAD doesn't cut it when it comes to disability here. So I guess there is some truth to the PTSD worthy thing.How a clinician could consider forced sleep deprivation to be “not traumatic”,
Honest to god, it is a complete disaster here in Canada. Doctors are uninformed and rude as could be, police are make shift mental health assessment officers that don't know shit about DV and most have a bias against women, shelters are a joke. All of that in and of itself is traumatic.