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[Spock]

...49 years since I planted my feet on Vietnamese soil ...

~50 f*cking years, 5 decades of dealing with this. I salute you Ba!

 

[BaMuoiBa]

~50 f*cking years, 5 decades of dealing with this. I salute you Ba!

All of that was yesterday - I just deal with it one day at a time. With a bit of help from my Vet friends. I salute them!

 

[Jimmy1]

Thank you all

Bads,

I did some investigation and study for you.There are other threads on here about it, but I found out the difference between Complex PTSD and PTSD. The both exhibit the same symptoms, but here it is.

PTSD itself is diagnosed for people with short term exposure to trauma, i.e. combat, car accidents, rape victims, natural disaster, and the list goes on. Us as veterans although in the same boat as those believe we fit into a whole other category just like emergency services because we repeatedly experience traumas, unlike auto wrecks, rapes, etc. However, Complex PTSD is generally assigned to those people that experience long term trauma, such as POWs, Child Abuse, Long term severe physical abuse, long term domestic abuse, etc. Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdahl is a candidate for that. A lot of veterans on here suffered at the hands of an abusive parent, heavier than normal handed that is. I had a friend who was beaten severely as a child, but he turned out fine, well I thought that anyway. That was until service in Baghdad triggered his PTSD, then everything came to the surface and he was diagnosed with CPTSD.
Just be careful they don't use it as a cop out for payments and services.

 

[anthony]

There isn't actually any such official diagnosis as CPTSD, not if you mean Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The APA rejected it and the ICD is still under review whether they create one come 2017. Right now... no such thing officially.

Unofficially, lots of shrinks and such use it based on a mix and matched criterion floating around online from trauma experts. Saying that, they can't even really come to a distinctive conclusion on what exists yet... let alone call such diagnosis stable.

Complex trauma is quite real though... and most combat veterans of multiple tours would more than likely fall into the complex trauma category if they've fallen apart afterwards with PTSD.

Again though... right now, officially, all we have is PTSD. Complex trauma is still very real though...

 

[SteveMD]

Right. My VA dx is just plain PTSD, but the notes go into the other things. If there was such a thing, I would have it, but the point being that it is a consideration for treatment, not a name.

I don't care what they call as long as they know how to help. Unlike news and audit, I have had very good treatment and excellent service---real dedicated people---but hard up for the volume of good staff. The audit shows mine as the worst for backups, but that doesn't effect everything.

Much better than hospitals in my old stomping grounds (ISIS-land).