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Hey everyone! I guess most people here will vaguely remember my relationship with a girl who has C-PTSD (and possibly other conditions as well). As a quick recap: we were together from June 2023 - January 2024; and then on/off until June 2024. She behaved quite abusively at times, the...

Hi everyone :) I was reading a psychology book today - unrelated to CPTSD. It defined the psychological term 'Complex' as "an organic network of compulsive attitudes beliefs and behaviors" Is this was the 'Complex' in CPTSD refers to? I just thought it meant 'complicated'!! 🙈

Hey guys, I'm a little discouraged to be back here so soon into the new year - because I felt my healing journey was going so well. I think it still is - I just had a little setback, and it's nice to write about it somewhere where people understand. I think it was triggered by speaking to a...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to post a (probably final) update on the toxic relationship that I was in earlier in the year. Probably some of you vaguely remember (though maybe not). I used to post on here a lot during - and after - a relationship with a girl who had CPTSD. June was the peak of...

Hey guys, I had a little knock back after finding out my ex with CPTSD is engaged to another guy, five/six or so months after saying she'd like to get back together with me. I will get over that and move forward again, but while chewing things over, I had a thought and I wondered if anyone has...

A friend of mine is on the fringes of her social circle. He let me know yesterday. This is with the guy who called me and threatened me. They’ve been together four months. There’s definitely a limit to how deeply upset I am - I don’t want her back, and I’ve really turned a corner in recent...

Hey guys, I've been reflecting a lot since that relationship that I was in. Y'know, sometimes I wonder if I have my own trauma to work through - or perhaps I'm just being a hypochondriac! Here's why - I was a long term teen carer, and the situation carried on until I was in my late twenties...

Just sharing this here rather than my usual little diary, because this is sorta… I don’t know - a different sort of post. But I had a really interesting conversation today. I bumped into someone I worked with years ago, and we got to chatting. Theyre on my Facebook page, and I remember them...

Hi guys, I have to do a placement year in September, for a course I'm studying. I'm currently studying in the same city as the ex that I'm trying to move on from. I've made a few friends there now, and I quite like the place (but I'm commuting there at the moment, because I'm not doing the...

I saw my ex holding hands with another guy today. She’s allowed to - she’s allowed to move on, she’s my ex. But what hurts is… she told me the intimate details of her abuse, she cried with me for hours, I held her long into the night… she always accused me of ‘finding things easy while she was...

I think I realised something today that might have been a breakthrough in my story. I’ve really struggle to let go of my ex with CPTSD. i just couldn’t understand what happened, or why it all still felt ‘current’. Today, I realised that I’d bought into a relationship entirely on their terms...

Hi Everyone! I don't really have any active CPTSD relationships anymore, but I'm still interested in the subject at the moment (maybe I'm still processing, maybe I'm just curious - I don't know). Sometimes I hear about a CPTSD/PTSD relationship situation and someone will say "That doesn't...

Hi everyone! Just here for a little wisdom again. It’s been a tough week this week. I really, really struggled at the start of the week (and last weekend), but had a great therapy session early in the week. By the end of it, I felt like I was starting to properly grieve the relationship I’ve...

I think this rant will be a bit selfish, because I know that CPTSD is harder for my ex than anyone, but I feel that I gave up so much to try to get to know them better (I actually did too - I had to move pretty far and my work took quite a hit, etc). That‘s on me, and I take responsibility...

I had a conversation with my ex partner a few days ago. I suddenly had a brain wave on what had made it hard for them to own their side of things. Well, to be fair, they‘d told me over a period of time, and I finally joined the dots. Soon after I asked them about it, they did own their side...

I met up with my CPTSD ex over the weekend. it had been two months, and they messaged to say they’d like to talk. i thought I was moving on but it stirred my feelings back up again. They seemed spiky and anxious, which is understandable. What I struggled with though was that when we got to...

Something I haven’t found information on yet, is - are there grades of cptsd, do you think? It seems like some people are really high functioning, and others have more severe struggles. Does the initial weight/earliness of the trauma usually impact the recovery time/depth? just interested!