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Wow, such invalidation..you need to see someone else. Complex PTSD is what it is...try reading Peter Walker's books..look him up on the Internet with complex PTSD. You will know what resonates with in you.

I had to diagnose myself initially. It was a relief to come across something that finally made sense. I read, Peter Walker's, Complex PTSD, How to Survive and Thrive". It resonated with me. It gave me hope. I came to accept my healing was completely up to me and me alone. I took the...

In so much ways I'm so much better, stronger healthier. I still do grief work and have times of depression. It's like all the grief, lonliness, despair, from before I was born is surfacing from my subscious. I want this. I know feeling these long repressed emotions will set me free. I have...

I have complex PTSD. I am 53, female. I had severe abuse as a fetus/infant, as my borderline personality disordered mother was having a psychotic break down while pregnant and after my birth. I have repeated the only intimacy I knew by marrying two other cluster B types, hence repitetion...

I have CPTSD, complex trauma, whatever you want to call it. I see the DSM, as a tool, and it has changed over the years. For awhile borderline personality disorder was removed. Complex trauma, or whatever you choose to call it, involves a catch twenty two situation that went on for years...

I have CPTSD, and I'm a nurse. Even the other nurses I work with struggle with understanding it. If you have never experienced it personally, or aren't a shrink, you just don't get it. I've learned to be selective with who I tell, and just focus on my recovery.

Oh, you are so very spot on. She needs to run and run fast. He is probably a cluster B type...narcissist, borderline, antisocial, addict, etc. This is a hard situation, because if she is a codependent, warnings usually are ignored. I'm a recovering codependent due to preverbal trauma. These...

I started having nightmares about the suffocation abuse, and would randomly stop breathing. I remembered the silky feel of the scarf, the musty smell from being in the closet for awhile, I remember the light surrounding it gradually being blocked out as it came closer to my face. I remember the...

I think shame came out of the neglect and abuse suffered as a child. It is in part projected on us by our abusers to justify their abuse and neglect. They abuse or neglect us, then project their shame on to us, freeing them from owning their own behavior. This gets done over and over.. we get...

Complex PTSD symptoms...Peter Walker, a therapist can pull it all togather....inner critic ramblings needed to survive abuse and emotional abandonment. The inner , critic has to fought and the childhood feelings need to be felt. This eases the emotional flashbacks, toxic shame, terror...

What I mean about feeling better, is lighter...I felt lighter, like some weight had been lifted off of me.

Let me know what you think....my therapist has thank me for letting her know about Peter Walker, as it has been very beneficial to her other clients

Grieve. Also EMDR can retraumatized if the shrink doesn't close the loop. Imagine going back there as an adult protecting and rescuing yourself. Sometimes I wouldn't feel better until 4 days after a session. You can also try self care and self compassion. Sometimes I felt this therapy was...

Wow, are you in a pit of pain right now. Forgive yourself, give yourself the compassion you don't even feel you deserve..do it anyways. My abusive ex would take a closed fist to our dog and kick her. He killed six Ferrell kittens stating it was too many, when the predators in the area would...