Question about complex ptsd symptom

[DarkOne35]

Ohhh okay. Well it was the therapist that told me that is what they came up with, even though my traumas were ongoing, for years... My husband told he is going to take me to see a Psychiatrist to be formally diagnosed. The DSM does not have complex ptsd, which is probably wht I was diagnosed with Severe and Chronic PTSD.

Could you have suffered a seizure??? The eyes moving back and forth was what my thought was........[/QUO...

Ummm.... No. I wasn't aware if the eye movement right before I switched alters. I would have to ask my husband to explain it to the Psychiatrist when he takes me ans then I will get feedback from the Psychiatrist on what exactly happened to me right before I switched alters.


I used to have seizures because of body memories and stuff but that was years ago. It very rarely happened.

 

[Thisgirl]

You said it yourself, you were triggered and it caused you to dissociate.

It sounds like you know that you switch but haven't found a trusted therapist. Please make that a priority, its so important for your health.

Its Possible that put on your shoes was been a phrase told to you, or even something you thought of repetitively while traumatized. Eye movement and convulsions can be related to switching/ dissociation. Extreme dissociation is caused by abuse at a very young age and there are some good blogs and supports groups specific to dissociation or DID/ DIDNOS.

Sending virtual hugs

 

[DarkOne35]

You said it yourself, you were triggered and it caused you to dissociate.

It sounds like you know t...

Well, I do remember that when the traumas were happening, that I wasn't allowed to live at home with my kids and I had to leave to go back to wherever it was that I was staying at the time, which a lot of times, it would be a shelter, or in a train station or the train. :-( So I know that when I switched, that would be the reason why that side of me thought they had to leave, even though I live at home now, and I don't have to live outside my home anymore.

And yes, I know that I switch after the episode is over with and my husband tells me about it. I am not always present when I am triggered, especially when I am under A LOT of stress. That particular time I switched was really scary because I honestly do not remember any of what had happened aside from what he has told me about what had transpired. Sorry if I am repeating myself a lot... I am really on edge right now, and I have to wait until later on to take my medicine, as it makes me sleepy after taking it.

 

[DarkOne35]

You said it yourself, you were triggered and it caused you to dissociate.

It sounds like you know t...

Thank you so much. I will be searching for some reading material on it.

And when I mentioned I did not know I switch til my husband told me about it, I was speaking about the most recent episode where I have no recollection of what happened during those 15+ minutes.. But yes, during past episodes before the most recent one, I was in fact present during those episodes. It was like I took a back seat, but was still aware of what was happening, but I wasn't in control of my actions, if that makes sense?!

 

[Abstract]

Its worth having a think about the past as as far as I understand it trauma has to have occurred repeatedly in childhood (before the personality starts glueing itself together more fully) if alters are created, as far as I understand it. It might be worthwhile considering if you have been dissociative in childhood before all this happened if this is what you are dealing with now. I am not a professional. It would be wise to speak to a pdoc and look at it more fully. The other option is that depersonalisation etc can be extremely intense and give a lot of these symptoms.

 

[DarkOne35]

Its worth having a think about the past as as far as I understand it trauma has to have occurred repeat...

Please don't do that. Please don't make me feel like what I am going through isn't really what it is, just because my severe and ongoing traumas happened in my adult years. Just because I suffered from these horrendous traumas in my adult years, DOES NOT mean that it is not what it really is.... This is the reason why I left the first time. It is not ONLY for people who went through childhood trauma, but there are people out there like me who went through horrific traumas in adulthood that end up with these same symptoms and disorders. It is more common than people think or believe.

Alters are created from SEVERE trauma, and it is seen more in childhood trauma survivors, maybe because adult survivors of severe, ongoing traumas don't come forward as much?!

 

[Sideways]

maybe because adult survivors of severe, ongoing traumas don't come forward as much?!

I think the popular current theory on why it is so heavily over-represented in people with childhood trauma is that as the brain develops through puberty, it interprets the traumatic events differently, and it develops more effective coping strategies. But that doesn’t mean it only happens during childhood trauma.

That is just theory ATM.

 

[SoWrong]

New traumas can create new alters in adulthood if someone already has a severe dissociative disorder(DID,OSDD) that developed in childhood,at a very young age.

If an adult creates alters without a prior dissociative disorder,without prior childhood trauma,it's not DID,which this thread is implying.It is something else,some other mental illness.People don't suddenly develop alters as adults.They develop at an age before the personality is completely formed.

That's a fact.And I agree with Abstracts post 100%.