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Different disorders process things… differently.Real or not, they were traumatic but a therapist that won't entertain the idea that what I experienced was real enough to traumatize me
A child with OCD? Or SPD? Or (many many many other things). Can be profoundly traumatised by absolutely normal, best loved, life. It’s not the kind of trauma that causes PTSD, but instead is a wholly different paradigm. Equally valid. Equally deserving of serious treatment & consideration. And I’m speaking as someone who has both genius & LFA (LOW functioning autism) in their family. Both requiring EXTREME levels of care, in wildly different ways. Along with about 3/4s of my family being ADHD, in various ways (purely mental, purely physical, & combined types). A few of us ADHD’ers also with PTSD &/or comorbid elsewhere. (Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders, Etc.).
Co-morbid disorders, like someone who is on the spectrum, or has GAD, or delusions, or ADHD, etc., etc., etc., and ALSO has PTSD?
Gets even more complicated.
IME… It’s worth finding someone who specializes with what you are BORN with, who further specializes in how trauma affects your base neurology. Rather than a McTherapist (who focuses on the normal problems of the neurotypical), or a singularly specialising therapist, who focuses on EITHER the condition(s) you’re born with OR the conditions you’ve acquired. But??? Finding someone who specialises in how trauma effects the condition(s) you’re born with.
Why do I expect you’re comorbid?
If EVERY therapist is telling you you’re experiencing “normal” as different? You’re not normal/neurotypical. But have a second disorder on board.
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