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Ahh fair! I just saw these people tended to very child-free, relationship struggles, had very strong opinions about gender roles but at the same time intellectually fairly egalitarian. It could have just been correlation and not causation. I found it interesting and was curious. ? Nothing...

@Justmehere I appreciate your empathetic and tough love response. It really puts a lot of things into perspective. Thanks for pointing out the doubting and self-worth element. A core part of my trauma was about people doing things "in my best interest" (a lot of it was well-meaning but with...

@Lumos I can't imagine years of that type of abuse. Sorry to hear that. I was only in it for 11 months and it shook me to the core. Yes. I foolishly went back twice. Each time he got more violatile. He told me that he fantasized about physically hurting me anytime he got angry. He also...

How does trauma from a mother figure play out in men's heterosexual relationships? I have noticed certain commonalities in a small sample size. So I am curious.

So I have C-PTSD from attachment, developmental, and medical trauma and have a physical disability. This relationship did not do my PTSD any favors. I got out of a toxic relationship 5 months ago but I am still struggling. Even though there weren't acts of physical or sexual violence, most...

Thank you. Great question! A few times I tried to open up to people, they dismissed the severity or glossed it over and I felt rejected. The rejection stings, I start to doubt myself, I don't want to deal with my emotions, and then I feel angry. So a defense mechanism and self-pity if I am...

Well, I will definitely admit that I have struggled with emotional regulation and building healthy attachment and trust all my life because of the emotional neglect. I also have a disability that significantly limited my physical autonomy during that timeframe (I got a lot more mobile with the...

I feel you on that. I am glad you got help. I mostly diagnosed with depression and adjustment disorder for many years.

Thank you! Have you experienced people dismissing your diagnosis just because it didn't seem clear-cut? I have also had other traumatic experiences but nothing to warrant PTSD... it was primarily the early childhood stuff.

So I got diagnosed with PTSD with complex trauma by several therapists due to abandonment, medical treatments, emotional neglect, and inconsistent caretaking. I never knew if my caretakers were going to be nice or mean, if I was going wake up in pain, when/if my physical and emotional needs were...

My old therapist (who understood my symptoms the best) has returned so I am resuming my therapy with him. He originally diagnosed me with PTSD, depression, and GAD.

I did have a series of physically threatening situations... Left out on some steps as a baby, surgeries that included my legs being broken and realigned causing excruciating pain and spasms(at age 4-5) with very little emotional support and comfort. I was left in bed alone for hours at a time...

I decided to take a few weeks off due to some trips to really think about my symptomatogy and goals in therapy. If I were to be honest with myself I am not sure what I want to get from her, therapy, or truly whether or not she's a good fit. The reason why I decided to get back into therapy is...

My last therapist had diagnosed me with GAD + PTSD + Depression if we want to get into specifics.

Thank you for your input! She said "trauma-related anxiety" was a new diagnosis in the new DSM and I tried to find it. When I couldn't find it online, I started questioning her competence in my head. She's implied on two different occasions that she isn't sure about my PTSD.

You I kept saying I had PTSD and how it affected but the way she responds to it definitely sounds she's doubtful of my diagnosis and doesn't want to commit to it. She's only seen me like 6 times and still seems really doubtful of it. I was hesitant of her assessment because my last therapist...

I am a little worried about that and being a "fraud", weirdly. However, I do have some physical limitations so I shouldn't be too worried about it. Haha

Thank you all for adding perspective to this. I think I will sit on it for a bit to see if I feel like she's a good fit for me. :)

I did qualify because I was an abandoned child with special needs, lived in several orphanages, had significant medical procedures, emotionally and sometimes physically neglected, and then got adopted to a foreign country all before the age of 6. It was beyond just bad parenting. :)

You have a good point. I am not sure if my current therapist is more black and white. My last therapist said it was PTSD from complex trauma. Abandonment as a baby, living in several orphanages, painful reconstructive medical surgeries, emotional neglect (lack of consistent support and care)...

You're right. I have resisted the temptation. The funny thing is I asked my last therapist what is the difference between my official diagnosis (PTSD from attachment trauma, developmental trauma) and BPD. He said, "not much". I guess I finally felt understood by my last therapist (we...

My last 3 therapists (my last one specialized in PTSD and trauma, created a trauma-based organization in my state, but got deployed) over the past 5 years have all diagnosed me with PTSD. I am even got social security on the first try for PTSD and other medical issues. I felt like the...

@EveHarrington : both online and in real life. It's not a good conversation to get into because inevitably despite how much you put in caveats and show the diagnostic criteria, people want to be validated for their experiences. It's like PTSD is seen as a vindication of an official battle scar...

Thank you for all the interesting perspectives. I was trying to figure out what makes things distinctly traumatic enough to be PTSD vs. something like an infidelity. What got me thinking about this was that I got into a heavy debate about whether the "emotional abuse" of infidelity would...

Chronic exhaustion, neck/back pain. I sometimes black out and lose my balance if I get overwhelmed. My physical handicap is weirdly a trigger for my PTSD. So my mood directly impacts my physical symptoms and vice versa.