Wow - The Apa Really Got The New Ptsd Diagnosis Right

[anthony]

Honestly, I would go back and ask your therapist for the diagnostic criteria for the label they just assigned you. They may change their attitude or do some tap dancing to justify their statement when you start asking questions about such. There is no diagnostic criterion for complex PTSD, so it is impossible for any such diagnosis to be given. They're making things up and telling you lies.

 

[Jenny0329]

I think what they mean is that I have other symptoms like dissociation but I live in the UK and some websites say that people do have complex PTSD.

 

[Jenny0329]

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalheal...ressdisorder/posttraumaticstressdisorder.aspx
This shows that Complex PTSD, they think is real.

 

[Shellbell]

Jenny0329, whether it is a legal diagnosis, or not doesn't really matter - complex trauma exists and there are many mental health professionals, who work with trauma who believe in Complex PTSD when the trauma is complex and severe.

I think mental health professionals identifying complex trauma and understanding this requires specialized trauma counselling, as well as understanding the PTSD symptoms are often more severe and harder to treat both medically and with therapy, is good and very necessary.

There are lots of terms banded about that aren't legally corrent - like 'Lifelong PTSD'. As far as I'm aware there isn't a legal diagnostic criterion for that either, but some mental health professionals and sufferers use that also.

I was told I had Complex PTSD, then discussed this with my mental health doc and was told 'legally' I have Severe PTSD with Delayed Onset & Major Depressive Disorder and these were the terms used in my documents submitted for a disabaility claim.

 

[Jenny0329]

I see a trauma specialist at the moment. I think I have severe PTSD because they said I have had a severe reaction to my traumas.

 

[Cheshire]

This is fantastic news. It looks like they're finally getting close to understand what we go through, rather than -telling- us and trying to fit us into that box.

 

[safenow]

Woo Ho, it's about time. I'm so exciting watching the changes over these past 60 years. I'm glad people are finally going to be getting the proper type of help. I'm watching people in the healing process be able to function again so much faster now. I'm watching families staying together longer with love and support now than in the past. I'm referring to those who have trauma that is severe enough to cause PTSD + all the other.

Thank you Anthony for bring this to our attention.

safenow.

 

[Shellbell]

The revised tightening up of the criterion for the trauma type necessary for PTSD diagnosis, will certainly remove a lot of more minor trauma's and normal life experiences many people currently and incorrectly think can cause PTSD. So many people confuse PTS with PTSD and forget or don't want to focus on it absolutely being about the trauma type itself first and foremost in the diagnosis criterion, not just the symptomatic reactions caused to the event/situation. This of course being fuelled by society needing to label the term trauma, to well...anything these days.

I wonder if people will actually wonder why the APA are making the criterion tighter??? Or will they conveniently ignore this. Will people start to accept that trauma type is not subjective when it comes to PTSD?

If the leading mental health experts in world believed trauma type is subjective with regard to PTSD, they would be making the diagnostic criterion for trauma type more general - not tightening them up.

 

[anthony]

If the leading mental health experts in world believed trauma type is subjective with regard to PTSD, they would be making the diagnostic criterion for trauma type more general - not tightening them up.

IMHO, the problem is stemming due to the therapy industry exploding, thus people are making it a business model for profit versus how the industry has been run, being from people who have endured something and then helping others to get through it, and not for profit.

 

[Shellbell]

I agree - they see how much money can be made from 'PTSD' and it's good business = cha ching.

They have only tightened up the criterion due to amount of people getting diagnosis wrong - due to the criterion wording being able to be manipulated and wrongly interpreted too easily and PTSD being way too mis & over diagnosed.

 

[zaniara]

I hope that it spreads to Sweden too.. That they update as soon as this is published! But they are not very good even at pointing out just the ptsd in people.. I had to spell it out for them just to get the remittance to the part of the health-care system that works with traumas.. but it took me 12 years from the first time until I eventually got proper trauma-therapy.. And like 10 other diagnosis(but no one ever did anything more than just talk to me for like 15 minutes, and then they gave me a new, incorrect diagnose, and then some new pills..)! When my Therapist told me I had complex PTSD and I read about it I eventually understood what has been the problem all the whole time!

 

[safenow]

I eventually understood what has been the problem all the whole time!

I'm glad you finally got a good therapist. It took them years before they got on the ball in the USA as well.

And some still don't get it.