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Covers a few areas. Flaring at present, not helpful by some of my clinicians trying to dictate/mandate certain treatments etc in an uninformed way despite claiming they’re being trauma informed. Spoke with psychologist today and part of what we’ve worked out is doing a graded exposure plan with...

Hey. Struggling right now with not just the cptsd flare but the medical traumas recently that triggered the flare and the flashbacks of previous medical traumas and the unexpected letter from my narc father I have no contact with. I tried voicing to my clinicians that they were making the...

Hey all, Had a few triggers the last couple of weeks which have really thrown me, especially already being in a cptsd flare. By chance one of these was a letter from my narc father (if not full NPD like my primary doctor said then definitely strong narc traits). My mother is challenging but in...

Hey…short version (I hope). I’ve been no contact with my biological father for years, took me wanting to protect my son from his narcissism to make the move but best thing I could’ve done with this ‘man’. So not for the first time he’s breached the no contact, though has been a few years since...

Hi. Not sure where to put this. Short version, a medical trauma around new years set off a major flare of my cptsd, and has complicated matters with mptsd. This wasn’t first time I’ve experienced trauma at the hands of or in the care of clinicians, but seems it opened the floodgates and I have...

Hey…I got a bit triggered by someone with lived experience of MH challenges saying anxiety and ptsd are ‘less severe’ than psychosis. Perception in government and society might claim that but I’m sure I’m not the only one who found ptsd/cptsd to be so debilitating it stopped me leaving my home...

So much is discussed about the I guess psych symptoms of ptsd that the physical symptoms get missed out. I’m in a flare at present and it’s reminding me how much more goes on. I’m not a Dr, I was a nurse and have done lots of reading and discussions with clinicians on a colleague level in...

I know it’s a distortion, and it took a lot of work to get to the place where even if it was there, it became a background belief I was working on further moving out. Recent further trauma has triggered this very strongly, and feels like it’s set me back in treatment, more so as the recent...

So short, trauma with a clinician who was called to ED for consult around new year; given I was already in a heightened state and level of carer burnout and physical pain including the chest pain I’d been sent to get checked by my GP who often doesn’t insist with my history, so the subsiding of...

Medication aspect is that although of course it’s an adjunct and different things work for different people, but wondering how helpful people have found clonidine for hyperarousal? I’ve found propranolol very helpful before and my psychiatrist agrees it’s beneficial but doesn’t want me on it...

Hi, Short version, cptsd from childhood traumas compounded by a few as an adult, then between carer burnout and flare of ptsd (was subpoenaed to give witness victim testimony though at last minute this perp pleaded guilty without hearing so I was spared actually taking the stand) I was having...

Hey. I’m K. I refer to myself as a survivor, not a sufferer. I rarely use fb and prefer older style forums like this appears to be. I’m a survivor, ups and downs. Sometimes my symptoms are reasonably managed, other times they’re debilitating or require hospitalisation, none easy anyway...