Sufferer Hello; Maybe Goodbye? C-ptsd

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Welcome

 

[Maggiemay]

Wintersmoke, thanx for the info. I've been diagnosed with C-PTSD and your explanation fits need well. Mine is as a result of numerous traumas thought my childhood including physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect within the family and outside of the family.

It wasn't until I wrote a trauma narrative a few months ago, which ended up being 13 pages long!! I understood the complexity of my PTSD and how my traumas are interlinked.

During flashbacks it's often hard to trace them back to one incident as may are trigered .

 

[Dissociation]

I know that there is another difference between PTSD and CPTSD, and it is the biological damage.
I mean, when you are exposed to violence, or to a situation of emergency, or to an extreme situation for too much time, your neurons literally burn, some zones of your brain turn isolated and the two hemispheres become less connected.

I am sorry that I can't find the related link anymore, it was a .ppt presentation of a neuropsychiatrist in an international conference on trauma.

 

[Wintersmoke]

Welcome! With in the year I have gotten the C too!

Do you know the reasons they gave you the "complex" diagnosis? Was it because of dissociative symptoms or because of the nature of the trauma?

Thanks very much for your welcome.

Wintersmoke

 

[Wintersmoke]

I know that there is another difference between PTSD and CPTSD, and it is the biological damage.

I was told this, too. I was diagnosed with a couple of different personality disorders, one of them being schizoid (I no longer have the symptoms of the other on a regular basis), and was told that especially with that in particular, the long-term trauma is what caused not simply my mind, but my actual brain, to grow wrong--with too many pathways for the wrong things and not enough for the right things. (Sorry about the oversimpification.)

I'll look around on the net for more about this; since I found out it was relevant to me, I've been interested, but never looked for more info. I have no professionals to ask further about it; I'm trying to get on SSDI at the moment (that's why I had recent tests). Until I have insurance, I will recieve no treatment of any kind.

Is anyone else trying to get whatever it is they need to get treatment?

Wintersmoke

 

[Shellbell]

Hi Wintersmoke,

Welcome to the PTSD Forum :)

People get too wrapped up in talking about whether CPTSD is a correct legal diagnosis or not. Complex trauma is very real and affects the severity of the PTSD. I think it is okay for mental health professionals to use the term complex PTSD, as it reflects the severity of the trauma's. And complex trauma is far more difficult to treat than one-off singular, or less severe trauma.

The diagnosis is not really the issue - it's the treatment and therapy given for complex trauma that matters.

I hope you find the forum a place of support.

Shellbell:)

 

[Wintersmoke]

Hi Wintersmoke, Welcome to the PTSD Forum

Thank you, and for welcomes and interest from everyone. I hope it will help, too. For several reasons, I have no contacts at all any more, and it has taken a good deal of working up to have even internet contact with other people again.

Wintersmoke

 

[Dissociation]

I am looking for more scientific articles or presentations too. But they are hard to find in the net, because the common approach is only psychological.

Let's get informed each other, would we?

:)

 

[therapybankrupt]

Do you know the reasons they gave you the "complex" diagnosis?

Wintersmoke

Combination of the many types of trauma and disassociation episode that happened during EMDR treatments added the C to PTSD. The diagnosis does not matter to me. I am sickened with or without the C. LOL:O_o:

 

[Wintersmoke]

Let's get informed each other, would we?

:)

I'll share anything I find, but it may take a bit; my physical problems mean that sitting at the computer for lengths of time--and being able to type--happens when it happens; if I don't get a particular activity in before the sudden, unpredictable physical crashes, things don't get done until I can both get to the computer, work it, and remember why I'm there (hard to make all those things coincide).

Wintersmoke

 

[Dissociation]

Wintersmoke, so sorry to hear that, don't bother with it. ;)
May I ask you what are your physical problems?

 

[KP the nut]

Hi and welcome to the forum.