Hi Saffy,
I too don't have a pre trauma or healthy (the way I see it) self.
I think one off trauma is not nearly as likely to create the dissociative and personality changes that long term childhood trauma or long term trauma often does. Many without PTSD can have many of those symptoms too and often from what is known as little t trauma (PTSD trauma is known as big T trauma). Emotional abuse, loss, bullying etc would be examples of little t trauma. Those things in themselves are awful as they change our sense of who we are and how we deal with the world.
I think although the core PTSD symptoms remain pretty much the same for all (for example you can't have PTSD without enough of the re experiencing criteria [flashbacks and intrusions] a week) the triggers depend on the specific trauma we have experienced so in that way PTSD is unique to each of us.
Treatment for someone with complex trauma is a bit different as then you have to deal with that level of dissociation and all the more complex ways the persons identity has developed around it. DID and personality dissociation only happens from severe repeated trauma before age 5 I believe but other types of dissociative disorders can happen fro much less and later.
Not sure if that is part of what you were asking but there you go. :)
Here is a link to the proposed new diagnoses that will come out with the new DSM. It is the second sticky thread on the discussion forum.
[DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/wow-the-apa-really-got-the-new-ptsd-diagnosis-right.27151/[/DLMURL]
I too don't have a pre trauma or healthy (the way I see it) self.
I think one off trauma is not nearly as likely to create the dissociative and personality changes that long term childhood trauma or long term trauma often does. Many without PTSD can have many of those symptoms too and often from what is known as little t trauma (PTSD trauma is known as big T trauma). Emotional abuse, loss, bullying etc would be examples of little t trauma. Those things in themselves are awful as they change our sense of who we are and how we deal with the world.
I think although the core PTSD symptoms remain pretty much the same for all (for example you can't have PTSD without enough of the re experiencing criteria [flashbacks and intrusions] a week) the triggers depend on the specific trauma we have experienced so in that way PTSD is unique to each of us.
Treatment for someone with complex trauma is a bit different as then you have to deal with that level of dissociation and all the more complex ways the persons identity has developed around it. DID and personality dissociation only happens from severe repeated trauma before age 5 I believe but other types of dissociative disorders can happen fro much less and later.
Not sure if that is part of what you were asking but there you go. :)
Here is a link to the proposed new diagnoses that will come out with the new DSM. It is the second sticky thread on the discussion forum.
[DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/wow-the-apa-really-got-the-new-ptsd-diagnosis-right.27151/[/DLMURL]
