Trauma-ptsd timeline

[Deleted member 37474]

How long was it between your trauma, your symptoms of ptsd, and your actual diagnosis of ptsd?

 

[ladee]

I had the symptoms my whole life, was not diagnosed until 1992, when I was 42 yrs old.

 

[Friday]

No clue.

I was diagnosed about a year before I thought anything was wrong.

 

[desiderata310]

Hmmm.. Original trauma? 4 years old? I dunno. Secondary Trauma(hah) or the one that finally flipped me over and made me seek assistance? That 5-6 years ago.
Everything fell apart and I was diagnosed PTSD 3.5 years ago. Been trying to figure it out since. Crazy pants.

 

[Deleted member 37474]

Trauma 1992.

Late onset ptsd (though I now notice that I have had these symptoms throughout my adult life)

When I started to have sort of a breakdown/anxiety/flashbacks event in fall of 2016 I tried to get better using a workbook on mind bridging till It just wouldn't go away.

Diagnosed March 2017

 

[joeylittle]

Trauma - early teens. Onset of symptoms? I am not 100% sure if they were creeping in on top of my comorbid depression or not...but I know they started full force when I started talking about the trauma, 25-ish years later. I was diagnosed with PTSD a few months after that.

 

[Deanna]

My trauma was from 1966 to the end of 2016... some of the worst was in 2009, 1982, 1983, 1966-1973, ( all of it, really) and I was diagnosed three months ago. I didn't know/ have any knowledge of /never been to therapy / already took a lot of medication/ some medication already mimicked the PTSD medication that I've taken for sleep. ( flashbacks, nightmares, movies of dead people in my head, etc) I have a very close, close friend/boyfriend/lover with PTSD and I could see all of my behavior in him. I didn't like what I saw.. but I could read it. He is very systematic and I am too, but in a different way. I took many psychiatric computer tests from an older therapist / that my doctor referred me to and he was lost/ hence the computer tests/ which were high in everything, but with no conclusive results.. and was referred to a psychiatrist who diagnosed. I now have a therapist that says my PTSD is severe and my acknowledgements are quite different from others.

 

[The Albatross]

My shrink thought my initial trauma was likely before toddler or 3. Though there was a whole bunch of other ones. I wasn't diagnosed til I was around 50.

There were layers for me to go through and work through before we got down to PTSD... and a whole lot of awfulness up to that point.

 

[One step at a time]

For a long time I attributed my symptoms to depression (I had been incorrectly diagnosed while things were still happening).

Two years after the end of the trauma, I became more symptomatic than I could hide from myself or others.
I was diagnosed three months later.

 

[eloc]

1999 - one trauma
Early 2010- another trauma, another trauma,another trauma all unrelated all in space of three months
work related encouraged hypervigilence till more trauma in late 2102 - PTSD suspected in late 2012 collapse and diagnosis in 2013
MDD Misdiagnosis by insurance biased IME in 2015
PTSD vs MDD - PTSD diagnosis confirmed through endicrinology in 2016 still fighting Insurance .
So I suspect I had PTSD throughout 2010- 2012 but was actually considered high functioning because of my PTSD hypervigilence - its stopped working in my proffessional favour with more trauma at end of 2012.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

The beginning of my trauma (as far as I can remember) was age 6. It was never stopping on going but got way worse at age 12. I seperated from them at 19 where I entered into denial. That really started at 18. All the way to age 28 when I entered therapy with my current therapist.

I was a very bad cutter in my early adult yrs. So though I was in massive denial i would cut about 8 times a day. The punishments ran wild. Rituals ran wild. I didnt know why i did them as denial caused me to supress things so much that I didnt remember them so i just thought I was a sicko. Was prostituting and coming onto to everyone and anyone and things like that was going on.

So some symptoms showed up right away. I did drugs off and on from 18 to 33 ish. I dont know what started in childhood. With the trauma it seems to be all mixed together but right after (18, 19, 20 ish) I showed signs of PTSD and being super traumatized. Most did not see anything was wrong so I was good at keeping a lid on it.

The signs really started to show right before I moved back so about 26 yrs old or so it started to purge itself out with explosions ans some of those PTSD signs. Got very bad when I moved back at 28 and thus why I was forced into therapy. It took a year to advise why I was really there (though was dignosed with BPD pretty fast) and then 2 yrs to pull it all out of me. Those two 2 yrs of pulling my trauma out of me in therapy is when flashbacks started and disocissation started and the most of the PTSD symptoms and right about then is when I was diagnosed with it. About the age of 30. I am now 36.

Not sure if that rambling answers your question. Truth is PTSD symptoms started pretty fast after. Maybe a year or so but the most of it didnt start until age 29 & 30 when I was forced out of denial.

 

[Keming]

symptoms immediate w/ trauma. diagnosis 30+ years later.