Most people are familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an anxiety disorder that results from a traumatic event, such as a natural disaster or car …
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"What is CPTSD?" Simple Definition – Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Animation? Okay. I like it. Very relatable. Making a hard topic soft with animation. Clever.
Yes………great definition and explanation :'( Harder to experience than be educated in it. :'(
Perfect ? thanks
Sounds like me, does this x
I was abused by a narcissistic mother and husband but cant remember specific examples necessarily. Yet my symptons match those last mentioned in the video. So which is it ptsd or cptsd?
I dont get it, whats the difference? ?. Just plain terms please.
That sounds so like me. I always thought I had PTSD. I know think I have CPSTD. No matter how much self talk I do I still feel worthless and unlovable even though I know Jesus loves me unconditionally. I just can't get it through my head. I have been told pretty much my whole life that I would never amount to anything or have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. Abused from a young child and abandoned to take care of my younger brother. Not enough food to eat. We were never good enough.
Now I am 51 and all the years seem a blurr. Age 6 seems like yesterday. I don't know if that is the ECTs I had years ago or my mind blocking the horrible memories. The guilt I feel over my son's death. There is so much. I sleep too much. I am on SSDI.
This is so me, how nicely done and concise,
This was very helpful. I Love this , I like the pictures / visuals. This is explained so well. Thank you
ok now try growing up as an ethnic minority and having your family think cptsd symptoms is just attention seeking behavior.
I have suffered since 1991 and this is an excellent overview but I will disagree with one aspect, the video or visual portion of memories do happen still decades later. It is excrutiatong. So no, there is not simply emotional flashbacks. Theu cover the gammet for me personally.
Thank you for your videos especially this one. It helped me learn a lot about myself
It's the most horrendous version of a time machine that I can't control. It's torture, simply.
Mine was brought on by being in a marriage (if you can call it that) with a controlling, emotionally abusive, possibly narcissistic person – almost 30 years. Mine did not start on my childhood. Didn't really start bothering me until now…about 4 1/2 years after the divorce.
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I don’t understand why he said that you don’t remember what happened to you? It’s not like a video in your head. Although I was just 3 years old I clearly remember being burned on my pants from my cousin who threw lite cardboard on my clothes. The trauma that I put away was being raped by a friend of my mothers who wife did her hair. At the age of 15 years old I was babysitting for them and I was so innocent I didn’t know that he committed a crime. I cried driving home and in the tub, and in the bed. When my mom found out she beat me up because she accused me of teasing him? I just wore jeans a top and no makeup on my face to babysit. I can’t find a therapist that can help me out with this situation, and I’m on medications that I need to get off of. ?♀️?♀️
Yes it does
This is so me. I have a vague understanding that my childhood was often in unpredictable and scary environments but not very good recall of a lot of it. Now I’m off to find the videos that tell me how to sort this out and stop seemingly self-sabotaging my own life ?
Cptsd, although I've never been properly diagnosed, has ruined my life.
This describes me perfectly!!! Unfortunately! Blessings and Hugs ?
yes this is me
Feel them all and that lovely critic in my head damns me for feeling good, sick, lazy, unmotivated…really it damns me for feeling anything.
The emotional flashbacks sound like anxiety and the lack of motivation and focus sound like ADHD. I wonder how many misdiagnoses of this condition and the other conditions are flying around.
Yes that's me ,
I, personally, don't like the fact that you changed the term "traumatized" to a muddied down, minimalized term "hurt".
I was diagnosed with C-PTSD as a teenager and went through extensive therapy for it. I was abused and ended up in foster care.
Yes, that is trauma. To say its "hurt" and not "trauma" is to discredit the experience.
And, as far as the events being too "small" for someone to remember.. They call that disassociation. That is a symptom of C-PTSD. That is NOT to say the event was too small to remember. On the contrary; disassociation is the brains way of coping through extreme stress and TRAUMA by intentionally forgettimg the memory. When I went into therapy, I couldn't remember HUGE and TRAUMATIZING events and it took many months of therapy to uncover those memories. Some of the memories had only happened 2-3 years before I began therapy. Its like my mind blocked it out from me.
In short, this whole video is bullshit and you clearly don't have any understanding of this actual illness.
I suffer from actual flashbacks, as well. I suffer from nightmares, as well. Just like normal PTSD. The only difference is C-PTSD victims also suffer from a few more added symptoms.
Incredibly accurate! I have worked with therapists that didn't believe CPTSD was a valid diagnosis which is incredibly frustrating to say the least when you only want to overcome- Desperately in order to live a better quality of life! So it's great to come across something like this that really helps people to get a clear picture of what it's like. Thank you. Much Love to all who are dealing with their own struggles???
Uggh it feels so much easier when you have something concrete to blame!
I was bullied in elementary school for over five years, but home was pretty messed up too, and the village I lived in was generally evil in some wicked sense. Many were/are members of one or another local cult. Children beat and bully each other on these grounds and adults keep it going, isolating their children when young and beating them when they misbehave. It's very confusing and deeply malignant. Every time I think I actually manage to pinpoint my trauma some new insight comes along and makes me all disoriented again. The framework you're offering helps tremendously though, putting words on the whole sequence of my life that loaded me with fear.
SO THANK YOU <3333333333 You probably saved my life and that's NOT an exaggeration! ❤❤❤
This is exactly what I've been going through for years …needs to get out to all people suffering amazing
WOW!! LIGHT BLUB!!! explains so much.. thank you .
Cptsd, that sounds like me. I don't try to remember, I try to forget it all. I'm not even sure, you go one by one at each traumatic event and it's different. It's not one single event caused it, there's not a single memory, it's the accumulation. If I think about it, fuck, I want to kill. I want to kill because of it!!! I want to kill everyone. That's what it's like. I grew up undergoing physical abuse, medicinal neglect, rape, and emotion abuse. The paranoia is the worst because you can't sleep, nightmares wake you if you try. You're isolated, alone, abandoned, and betrayed.First the good ole boy system needs to crumble!!!! The president of the us needs to die. The wealthy need to die. It's a fucking war is what is and they're winning!
Does this explain why I always get the shakes and sweats, and feel weepy every time I have to be in the same room as my ex, even though he currently isn't doing anything wrong? Why I'm always afraid to speak to him even though it seems irrational?
The anger I carry has literally affected every area of my entire life.