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I definitely have CPTSD, which I discovered 2 years ago on the "Crappy childhood fairy" youtube channel. The most significant word I have ever heard in my life is "Dysregulation" because it explains exactly what happens to me when i get stressed. I was amazed and happy to know that there was a word for what happens to me when I get stressed and that it was a "thing" not just my imagination. I love that this is in the ICD-11 "If functioning is maintained it is only through significant additional effort" because this has been my life since I was 2 or 3 years old. It's not my fault!!

the feeling numb and not hyper vigilant then having the tsunami of emotions is a particularly difficult issue... i am not able to express my true emotions in front of people, i numb out... but when i do feel, i feel to the point that i cant cope and again have to "check out" to survive. Because I'm not able to show people the depth of this, i am often ignored or told "you seem fine".... I know Im not... its such an awful way of being. Im desperate for someone to see how deep my feelings are, but my survival instnct wont let me ... its truly awful.

I think it's absolutely shocking that the DSM doesn't account for prolonged childhood trauma despite the amount of evidence that has been presented about the effects of this type of trauma. Thank God for the ICD because I would not have discovered at nearly 40 years old that I've been suffering with cPTSD for many many years 🙏. Now, at last, I have a diagnosis given to me by my UK therapist and so treatment options to help me manage such a complex mental and physiological health issue. And thank you, Dr, for explaining it all so thoroughly to increase my knowledge on the matter x

i have cptsd and ptsd both. im finally no contact with my abusive mother and sister. scapegoat no more.

Well-described. I'd like to emphasize for anyone reading this that while an accurate diagnosis *is* crucial, what matters most is what we *do* about it. Recovery is possible, but it is hard work and can take many years to see improvement. Best wishes!

I started therapy 3 years ago at age 49, and from the onset learned that I present all the 'classic' signs of C-PTSD. I score 9/10 on the ACEs criteria. I also have a number of stress-related physical illnesses that I'm told are incurable. C-PTSD is a death sentence. Both my parents are narcissists and my stepfather was a psychopath. These people are best left to fester in their own toxicity as they don't believe; and never will believe they have done anything wrong, even when their actions are illegal. Other than my therapist, here in the UK, there is no available support, perhaps due to my age. I wish all listeners here every encouragement in their recovery and to live a meaningful and purposeful life. Keep going!

Hallelujah! I think all the personality disorders are just different maladaptive expressions of coping mechanisms to the trauma. They are different ways of reacting to the CPTSD

Yes, you are exactly right. Your view of CPTSD rightfully encompasses a whole patchwork of diagnoses. For years I've received my diagnoses piecemeal. Finally, at 66 years old -- 3 years ago-- I began to remember my childhood ritual abuse. Even though life isn't easy, I appreciate that there is a more coherent diagnosis. It's it's easier for me to understand and easier to explain to others. Most importantly it removes the stigma attached to many cognitive problems, memory problems, executive function problems, etc.

This lesson on cPTSD is what I needed. I was beginning to lose faith in my psychologist’s diagnosis because my family constantly gaslights me and psychologically attempts to control me. I know how much they love me. They provide for me financially at the moment because I busted my knee and changed jobs. my Mom has done what she can to support me, but what I need to heal is something that can’t be attained in a short period of time, ESPECIALLY if my truth is not allowed to be brought to light by all of my family members (I wonder why). So despite the amount of love I know that exists between us, I can’t let go, how much they’ve hurt me, due to unwillingness to hear and understand my condition. I can give them this diagnosis, and the symptoms, and how they present within myself, but they literally don’t want to hear it. I’m doing everything I can with the little strength I have left, to become self-sufficient, so I can live on my own. Those with the condition know how difficult this is. My 80 lb bag feels like it weighs a ton right now. I don’t know when the load will become literally unbearable, but for now, I just gotta get through tomorrow. I made it through today, which makes tomorrow seem a little less daunting. Thank you for your thorough explanation Dr. It brought me peace and will hopefully help me sleep better tonight. God bless and may we all continue to conquer the challenges life tends to throw our way :)

Its what's happening to me and I'm 61 years old it's a nightmare I'm glad you made this public. It's absolutely real I know because I'm living it that's how I know.

Thanku so much ,ur videos r giving me a new life ,i have been exposed to all kind of trauma since my childhood with no one to help, no family no friends,only me surviving through all the scars like u said it is like running a marathon with 80kg rucksack on your head u just dragging urself to the finish line ,so hard to live like this ,i hope one day i will overcome my life. Sometimes i just don't know what my trueself want, always have been very confused when deciding what's the right option.

As an aspiring fiction writer who has interest in portraying PTSD and C-PTSD with respect and dignity instead of fantasizing/fluffing it up/falling into stock inaccurate and offensive tropes, this is a godsend. I don’t have either - a fact for which I am thankful - but that does not give me free reign to treat a real, horrible thing as a plaything. Research is critical even when writing about unreality. A lot of my older high school writing about traumatized characters makes me cringe extremely hard now for a reason.

Thanks Doc! ... I've been waiting, forever, for this -- since, April. Much appreciated!

Growing up in a dysfunctional family , racial discrimination, struggling thru poverty ,having well over 50 street fights , being shot multiple times , being stabbed in the face another time stabbed in the leg , being jumped beaten and robbed f , set up by so called friends and having house broken in to and vandalized - the list goes on and on . Does this qualify for one feeing chronic Ptsd ? 😵‍💫😵💀

Wow, finally a description that fits my symtoms. There is hope. Excellent

I need to talk to my therapist, this feels so right on target for me.

Thank you Doctor Snipes. You have helped tremendously with your videos. Much love

when you consider also that some people think in words with emotions while others are very visual many even artistic that if they experience prolonged Trauma may develop symptoms whereby they actually are triggered into reliving the Trauma to some extent while they are remembering a specific Trauma Event, Its AMAZING how Resiliant the Subconscious part of the Brain is to try and Protect a person from Trauma until they can further grow to a point of awareness & begin the proper healing process to address the issues. Its a Survival Mechanism that kicks in so that a Child or person can have a much better chance at Survival !!!!

I have a CPTSD diagnosis. I Made it 6 minutes in, but I've started to cry. I haven't dissociated for a long time, but I worry about it. It's something that is difficult to explain to others. It was in 2007 and I was the subject of an argument between the person I worked with and our boss. My friend didn't understand why I didn't say anything. I couldn't tell him I was in a state of dissociation. I've learned to recognize that "discomfort" and physically leave the situation. I realized that when I have to leave, I have to leave! I know I'll leave without moving. I fear this more than anything. It's embarrassing and very painful afterwards. No matter what ends up happening, for me in both instances I emotionally breakdown, but if I leave no one sees me crying. Thank you for the video, but I'm going to cry now. Which is a good thing, for most of my life I couldn't feel anything, I didn't cry. I didn't laugh. I was an automaton. People have no idea of the damage. When I finally had my breakdown in the 1990s, something strange happened. I started writing left handed and i discovered that I was ambidextrous. The right side of my brain and the back of my brain started tingly along with my left arm and BOOM I'm a genius. It would have been nice to grow up as a genius. Now it's a game of what ifs and shame. I had a buried memory of writing left handed as a young child, one of my brothers said I was weird writing left handed so I didn't, AND i never told my mom which was my biggest mistake. it's my birthday today and I've been alone my whole life. I have an Avoidant personality disorder.

I have CPTSD and Quiet BPD. It is not easy to live with but my fear of abandonment/beliefs of I'm being abandoned are getting better with time and my ability to work with my physiology when it comes to flashbacks/trauma response has improved a lot thanks to my interest in psychology, the nervous system, functional medicine and many years in therapy

Ty for this. You've described me to a T. I now know why my behavior has been strange. Yes I was exposed to extreme physical abuse as a child.

Thank you for posting this vlog. I learned new information and it confirmed my diagnosis'. Thanks again Doctor!😊

Let's talk about additional issues connected with trauma from the angle when one seeks help from medical industry. If you grew up in 1990s - there was not talk about trauma. You would seek your anxiety symptoms - and information available would direct you towards CBT. All help you seek would be lensed through DSM and CBT. This is huge problem because: Then CBT would explain that your panic is imaginary hallucination and that toxic people do not exist at all - that you are creating label toxic in your head through your explanations. This is the definition of gaslighting found in narcissistic abuse. This way CBT brainwashed anyone with anxiety and panic triggers and flashbacks into subservience, fawning and self blame, self hate. This is true for social anxiety - which is nothing else but part of Complex Trauma. Social anxiety is further obfuscated by CBT and DSM since the definition of social anxiety is deliberately mixed up with Paranoid disorder. This is due to Pharma mafia, making huge money on random people with anxiety issues seeking help. CPTSD was discovered in 1994. PTSD was discovered in 1980. Until 1980 PTSD symptoms were labeled as Shell shock from wars and patients were told to toughen up - do we see the repetition of abuse by mental health authorities, the same one with social anxiety today. Both DSM and CBT are doing real and serious intentional damage and needs to be either radically changed or banned altogether. In 2002 there was Trauma model - that explains any psychological issue as product of trauma- however this research was banned due to Pharma mafia - google trauma model 2002. With CPTSD I learned that there are certain concepts that are not explained by CBT (This includes self help books and online help and therapy). Polyvagal theory - states that anxiety, panic and uncomfortable symptoms that CBT instructs us to evade, focus and spend a lot of time and money to nitpick - instead of crusades, Polyvagal theory states that we need to wait for storm to pass. Emotional dysregulation - while CBT instructs us to worry and spend time nitpicking our fears and thus creating more unnecessary drama and hysteria - dysregulation on the other hand explains that when we are triggered and with flashbacks there will be amygdala hijacking, and our brain will go into panic mode. This is not our fault. This is automatic. This is due to conditioning, being in toxic ambient with untreated mentally ill people around us. So - this is trauma stuck inside our body. It is not personal fault, there is no toxic shame that CBT builds up inside us as if we can control these dysregulations. We can't - it is hypnosis and program that is being ran inside us. There are ways to regulate - but it has nothing to do with methods proposed by CBT. CBT advice makes dysregulation worse and thus last longer. External reference locus of control or Trauma bonding - with toxic shame inside us, our self worth will be relocated in other people and we will see other people as gods. We will believe anything they say and order us. we will thus fawn and shut up and self censor ourselves, start to be addicted to other people and their feelings - and we will try to fix other people , their anger and we will take their criticism as personal - this is trauma bonding or codependency or lack of self love (as explained by Ross Rosenberg, author of Human magnet syndrome). When our relationships are messed up as explained by Glasser - we will develop symptoms that mimic mental illness - and CBT explains and perceives this mimicking of mental illness as real mental illness - and then treats anxiety as hallucinations. This way CBT is performing lobotomy on perfectly normal human beings who are not having any hallucinations at all. The fears and fawning inside is trauma being stuck inside the body. Trauma is caused by external factor: toxic people and untreated mentally ill people around us, narcissists and aggressive borderliners. Mobbing, abuse, bullying is always behind and trauma and anxiety and panic and hysteria. There is invalidation from toxic ambient that is causing trauma. I never heard of ICD at all. I thought that DSM was the only classification out there. Thanks for that info!

Thank you sooo much Dr. Snipes! You are amazing, courageous, & informative. Thank you sooo much! How do we find therapists to treat this horrible condition?

This helped me understand my ptsd diagnosis alot more, and where certain issues that I didn't realize were connected, came from.

This functions as a perfect figurative tool piece and resource I could use to show the right people in my life. Hope you don't mind me doing so.

I really appreciate your videos and extremely helpful information. Thank you!

That was a fantastic and informative video.. it subtly sidesteps the top down pressure in thinking from cPTSDs exclusion from the dsm 5 and the spin off effects in what is essentially misdiagnosis in North America.

This video explains why some people experience their blood pressure jumping well over 140/90 to dangerous level right away when a major life crisis starts to happen to them until it starts to become resolved. It is because they were already experiencing the signs and symptoms of PTSD because of childhood trauma or whatever before the next major crisis in their life started. A retired nurse who was already into advanced old age warned me about putting too much faith into the theory of evolution. She is right in coming to that conclusion instead of assuming that every case of heart disease is to some degree an inherited condition. We shouldn't assume that every case of A.D.H.D. set of signs and symptoms is to some degree an inherited condition too.

I'm so pleased to finally hear a description of how things are for me. Now I know what is going on with me, I can take steps to deal with it.

I have all of these. Except the flashbacks I think don't have a visual element. It's more I get flooded with intense emotion and react. I've blocked out a lot that my sister remembers. I also have gotten stressed and couldn't recognize where I was. I feel that I have low stress tolerance than others because my reactions are so over the top.. I feel I can't function and just want to recluse at home. I just recently realized I numb myself by constantly staying busy, scrolling through Facebook or when I feel pain or discomfort, music or rocking to shove the emotion back down again. Then I go numb. The weird thing is, I've been no contact with my narcissistic guardian and the cult I was in. But it seems like it's just getting worse. Time doesn't heal all wounds.

I just want to say thank you for acknowledging that 6 year olds can have temper tantrums, because a lot of people love to treat the existence of such a thing as completely wrong and maladjusted in all children over literally 1 year old.

This information is so valuable...

You are Dr. Berg of psychology and psychotherapy. Best regards.

this video was really informative and validating! being in a situation for years that you can’t escape is the hardest thing i’ve had to deal with. c-ptsd is very real and i wish it was included in the DSM :/

الله يدخلك الجنة اخيرا لقيت قناة فيها كل شي جاري المخمخة ❤❤❤

Thank you for making this video:)

Even though my CPTSD has improved a lot, I still struggle with a lot of these issues in my life .. Some days are better than others... I basically avoid relationships because I feel a woman would not be able to handle my CPTSD issues. .

This is so me! I can't believe that I have this and haven't found out till 3 years ago.

I was diagnosed with ptsd last year. My therapist thinks that I have c-ptsd. Listening to this today, I def resonate with most of these symptoms.

Thank you for explaining all this. Even if CPTSD is not necessarily recognized as a diagnosis to insurance, wouldn't PTSD still be relevant and recognized instead? From what I understand, if you have CPTSD, you still have PTSD, only in it's more severe form... FYI, I had a forensic psychologist analyze me for a trial who specifically used the term "CPTSD" in reference to me, so even if it's not recognized in the DSM, it appears to be recognized on some level by forensic psychologists here in TN. I feel like that is a positive thing for those of us with CPTSD.

Thank you Doctor.

Watching to see if I can self diagnose & do some self healing. I have always been really into fitness though I after gone through a few traumatic hate crime assaults & moving to a rural place I do not enjoy being at, I now cannot motivate myself to do a work out, I have lost interest in having a relationship, though I must say that you are very lovely & attractive Doc Snipes, and your empathy & inner beauty is very healing to me. I wonder if I can hire you for counseling.

Speaking from personal experience with both C-PTSD and MDD, it's like being eaten from the inside out.

You are very well educated and informal i appreciate your support in dealing with incompetent "professionals" in your field you take the time and engage whereas my local funnyfarm docs are there for a paycheck and not thorough with psyche evals or prescriptions they botched my whole psyche eval and gave me a generalized symptom sheet that is accurate enough but its only half a coin its clear they did not listen to me nor did they care about jack diddly squat besides the turtles coming in at the end of the payperiod

Thank you again🙏

Thanks SO MUCH for the vid! At least I have something to show my therapist to prove that cptsd is real in SOME fashion. There's a rant at the bottom, so feel free to ignore. I wish I knew what to do, in general. I'm 40 and have seen about 5 different therapists in the past 8 yrs, and it never really feels like I get anywhere or am understood. It feels like they all, at some point, give up on me. It feels this way because I'm the type of person that challenge others' methods with questions if I don't understand something, in hopes of understanding. But, in the end, it feels like I'm left with the therapist being something like "well, then you tell me what to do". I'm very much out of ideas and have mostly given up on planning for the whole "retirement" thing or what to "do" with the remainder of my life, which is kind of scary (in a sense) but the consensus via everyone seems to be "well, you put yourself there, so you figure it out".

thank you for this video

65 & occasionally an immature 6 year old. 10 years ago moved to the town of my parents This was the fourth time I tried to relate to my parents, trying to get it right. When I didn't live in the same town they often had no contact with me Spent the video going "Yep...yep...yep" Thanks again. Will listen again, and comment again. Yesterday I was reminded how impossible it can be for me to say "No" to an authority figure. I have been irrational about a relationship encounter. Many people could have successfully negotiated. I have not had any alcohol, possible a year, that's not right, in a while. Been a while since I have not been able to not drink more than I had agreed with myself to allow. However after the hangover did not buy more dispite a desire and still having money in my wallet When I tried to talk to the person my ability to talk broke down. Been I'm therapy for five years, thought this type of experience was behind me. This is Friday morning, the incident sparked me Wednesday morning. Regular people could have negotiated this situation. I felt wild and only self harmed a little. Because of these type of experiences I limit my exposure to people have had a very spotted work history, never married, and will not even approach relationships that could be intimate (other than my therapist & the mother of a former lover), by intimate I mean feeling safe enough with a person to be able to have coherent wise conversations that is to say my ' friends are Facebook friends . It may be years since I shared a meal with a friend. I do get out in public and a known character in town. Finally joined.

My CPTSD has improved through therapy and meds...

Thanks!

Thank you for this. I’m checking the code with my insurance right now. 😎

Wow!!! Accurate.

I was 7 yrs old when I was told that I had a memory block I remember telling the doctor over and over "I don't understand why can't I remember" I couldn't remember age 4, 5, and six I remembered before that and in present moment. I had amnesia and only 5 yrs ago , in my 50's I remembered a bit of what happened - a before, middle and end...I now remember where it happened -

Relationships are so hard for me. As soon as someone does something that reminds me of my abuse, I go into an angry emotional state and I can feel myself becoming guarded again. I almost think maybe I shouldn't be friends with them. Are they even safe? I do this with friends and family. Is that part of Complex ptsd? Like almost BPD splitting? I've been told I have cptsd

This video has been very enlightening. I have C-PTSD from a bad relationship and living in a bad area (2 years). My ex-partner used to self harm herself in many different ways. Her attempted suicides. When she would get really angry she wouldn't let my leave our apartment without the threat of physical violence or saying she would and I quote directly " if you try to leave, ill tell the police that you raped me" (*sociopathic staring*). Numerous police encounters with her and in our apartment in general. It's been almost 5 years and it still really effects me everyday. Primarily through intrusive violent thoughts or no self worth. Treatment is available though and I've felt a better than I have after receiving some therapy and anxiety medication. Thank you for your video. This helps me and others understand ourselves better.

I've had two years in high school where things were normal. everything else was constant issues with abuse, pain and torture.

4:30 this makes so much sense. I hadnt heard this symptom before, but I have talked about this with My therapist. Where I felt My threat alarm was busted, like it is hard for me to put a dimension to danger. Like rationally I know what is dangerous, but I don't feel in me that feeling to make me react.

Please do a collaboration with Therapy in a Nutshell ❤ thank you for sharing this

I tried to keep my son from unaliving himself for six years. Six years of attempts. I think I have complex ptsd now. Thanks for this explanation.

Thankyou ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️!!!!

You are awesome

Have been wondering if my child had Autism for a long time and still no diagnosis, now I am coming to believe she has C-PTSD and maybe both Autism AND C-PTSD. So far since she is NON-verbal and 18 diagnosed with DMDD. Since COVID and feeling safe at home I believe she is "working through" and re-living trauma. Nothing but a BLACK box, Im so happy you are here on you tube, your videos are helping me learn soooo much! Many trials of drugs tried, my daughter has Down syndrome and all drugs were disasterous! Using Ayervedic herbs and deep breaths, ProloQuo 2 go communication many hours per day. She avoids working with me 95% of the time. Nothing worse than thinking your child doesn't like you! Very slow progress, at least there IS progress as we keep ALL stress out of our lives. So many people end up institutionalized and on highly sedating drugs because many people have absolutely NO clue why an IDD person is aggressive. Public Schools are a BIG part, sadly Capitalism and lack of LOVING and COMPASSIONATE people etc. Sorry for ranting, but I need alot of therapy!

I have CPTSD. The psychologist listed me as Bipolar in my medical chart for Billing Purposes with MediCal. That’s Not OK!

I hate my quality of life. It's hard to live with a 6B41 Thank you for your videos

I was diagnosed with CPTSD about 5 years ago, in the US. I receive disability for it . Seems like if it isn't recognized here it would be hard to get government benefits, strange.

What should I do if a loved one was raped and the doctors gave her 6 hardcore drugs at once and fried her mind. She’s been off all prescribed drugs for a year and now she has constant brain fog and daily panic like she just got in an accident and won’t leave the house for over a year. She is afraid of seeing a doctor because they destroyed her brain. Now I’m a caretaker and have no help and have to support her whole life. I’m strong but feel like life has defeated us both.

I wonder if emotional abuse can cause brain damage?

Thanks for this explanation on cptsd turning into personality disorders. Right before you started explaining this, I had that thought because of a former friend I know who I believe is a malignant narcissist, but her upbringing was so wrought with dysfunction and neglect in childhood that I started thinking that these were the causes of how they currently behave and function in life. I feel so sorry and sad for her because I relate to that dysfunction, but the dysfunction I came from did not create in me a personality disorder. My brother is currently displaying cptsd induced personality disorder and as an adult no one can doing anything about it now but him, and so far he shows no signs of changing or even realizing he needs help. He has a child that is being affected by this and is growing up without a dad.

Accurate!!!

How do we treat it

Thanks so very much!! I am definitely a C-PTSD SURVIVOR! From before birth to second grade. Was the most difficult time for me. I figured it out at 62 years old!!! 🫤😖 Really take’s determination and character to rise above it! I was misdiagnosed many times, tried different psychic meds to no avail! Knowledge is truly POWERFUL!!! I still struggle but, I understand much more and handle things much better. I should donate my body to science, I’m absolutely sure my brain was way too small, but I forced myself to learn. I was able to get a degree and other college credits. But, never felt good enough, smart enough or wanted. I encourage everyone to do what they can to heal and move forward 🙏💜🙏

I learned of the cPTSD diagnosis a few years ago as an older adult. It is disappointing but not surprising that the "official" diagnostic manual of the USA doesn't include it. The USA is a deeply authoritarian culture, the idea that millions of people have developed serious, brain altering conditions due to parental mistreatment is anathema. First, because it might cause us to question authoritarianism and authority figures. Second, because our society has no interest in assisting people and blaming them for their own ills relieves society of the need to assist. In fact, I have been told by more than one health care professional that they avoid treating people with personality disorders because it is too hard and too unrewarding. That is how deep this runs.

Thank you for that comprehensive video on cptsd. Could you please advise on effective therapy or therapies which could help. As I live in the UK, where this diagnosis does not seem to be recognised or acknowledged, how would someone with cptsd access effective help. Many thanks.

What is your take on dissociative disorders with C-PTSD? Can someone have both?

Yes, i can be super hyper vigilant without the startled. Not good. That's when you no longer care of the risk and good chance of rage

I'm fairly certain I have cptsd. My earliest memories were 3 years old watching my father brutalize my mother, then my mother left and started dating a twice convicted pedophile whom raped and tortured me at 4 years old. Then my mother put it in the newspaper when I was in first grade, the parents of the other kids assumed I would become a sexual predator so they told their kids about it. I'd get bullied ruthlessly for it until I learned martial arts and fought back. When my father learned I wasn't his kid when I was 7 he would beat me till he was tired every time I did something wrong. I tried getting help but no one believed me so I just through myself into harms way to protect others who couldn't protect themselves because I knew how hopeless it felt to have no one bother to help. Then when I was 10 my father forced me to do 20 pushups on a fractured forearm, then on my 11th birthday party I wanted to have it around my peers of very few friends I had instead of just at my mother's house and no friends. She stormed in the front door and just yelled at me saying since I didn't want to spend my birthday with her that I wouldn't see her ever again, embarrassed me due to me being 11 and crying in front of my friends. When I was 14 I was forced to sit and do my homework where my father could see me, I refused and said I didn't want to do it. He just lunged on me in full mount and choked me with 2 hands and his weight bearing down on my throat, as the lights were going out I thought he was going to kill me that time. He let go and just sat back in front of the TV with no expression, I got up and retreated to my room and called him an asshole. As soon as I went to slam my door he kicked it in and went right after me, chased me around my bed and I used judo to throw him into my closet using his monentum, he lunged at me again and I used judo to throw him into my wall and I lost balance and fell ass first into a milk crate. All I could do at that point was cover my head with my arms while he swung haymakers at my head. Then he threw me to the floor belly down, pinned my arms with his knees and punched me in the back of the head 8 solid times. Then my uncle on my mother's side would let me hang out to go fishing and he'd buy me cigarettes and beer, what I didn't know until I was 16 was he was video taping me through a peek hole he carved in one of the bathroom doors every time I showered or used the bathroom. My mother found the VHS tape. When I was 16 I finally had enough abuse from my father and I fought back and almost killed him by holding a rear naked choke too long. My father stopped putting his hands on me and would just say demoralizing and degrading things to me and he finally got his revenge when he slandered my name in court when I was 30 and stole my son. Since then I excommunicated myself from society and from all family, most of my friends are dead and politics took the rest. My entire working life has been difficult to hold a job because my short term memory is awful and it's hard for me to focus at times and hard to learn new tasks. Relationships never work due to women cheating and manipulative behavior. So I dunno. Everywhere I go I always scan the area, every face because I'm used to being attacked when my back is turned so I'm hyper vigilant. I'm fully capable of shutting off my emotional connection to my past when I discuss it and not make eye contact. My night terrors come in the form of flashbacks in my dreams, often leads me to swing in my sleep, something I've done usually when over tired.all my relationships do give me brief periods of happiness but always with the reality that it won't last, when the problems start i just shut down so when they get to the point where they leave i feel nothing. This was probably a massive novel but a brief run down of my life story

Is it possible to develop cptsd from a relationship with someone with BPD and sud comorbid? It's been two and a half years and I know I'm a codependent so I know that's wearing on me but in another video about the 15 signs about hitting rock bottom of codependency you mentioned the overlap of CPTSD. It seems logical if you could develop it long-term trauma that relationship is almost 100%, especially when you're still in it because your codependency won't allow you to let go. She hasn't started treatment yet and now that she's going to I kind of feel cruel if I break this close to the end after this long. I feel like I dangled that carrot of it's okay to trust someone they're not going to leave you but I might break before she gets better or at least gets a chance to get better. But now I'm curious about this overlap you mentioned in the other video and curious if the relationship itself can cause it

I was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea after sleep study at home. May get Inspire implant. Couldn't get used to CPAP. I haven't had good night's sleep in 40 yrs. Never dream. If I do, I'm always running and gasping for breath in dream.

the dsm is research oriented and relatively uncaring of clinical concerns let's burn all the dang dsm manuals ! t h a n k 🌷 y o u for this Doc Snipes

It is also common in abuse victims and parents of kids with cancer .. I have both

Asking from the perspective of a new student therapist just starting a deep dive into cptsd. If a client has this diagnosis then they would not be diagnosed with MDD also, is that correct?

Cluster B personality disorders (esp BPD), CPTSD and Autism. How do you tell the difference if the complex trauma started in the first year of life?

Been looking all over trying to find out what's wrong with me. Live in America, so not worth enough to get help.

Exactly, unfortunately, people who present its symptoms are diagnosed with everything (PDs, depression, ADHD and so on) but not with the C-PTSD

😢😢😢😢I did today! 😢neighbors playing loud music with bad things in the music I flipped out yelling screaming to please turn it off!!! They wouldn't scared to call the cops because my perpetrator was a cop😭😭😭😭😭 I battle cptsd and pba, symptoms started at 4 years of age

I think i have. But what's the solution to feel better

I have cPTSD from childhood abuse. I have good feeling my AvDP is caused by cPTSD.

I have a question please answer for me the girlfriend and I’ve been just have not getting along the last couple years and I knew she had PTSd twooccasions when she was young and when she was a teenager, but she acted like it didn’t bother her any at all but then she would have these episodes with me like blaming me for things that that I didn’t do and stuff like that to where she started being distant from me for like six Months And couldn’t figure it out what was going on and everybody thinks that I’m the bad guy and it was not me and I wasn’t doing anything. It was just her blaming me and so then I finally figured out the PTSD was actually making her delusional now I’m talking to her about it but she’s playing like she doesn’t get it. She’s lying to me. I don’t understand how I can get through to her she’s telling me she’s out of town when she’s not she’s just so scared for some reason and then I wonder why is it me that’s getting blamed for this and why is nobody else getting blamed why am I the one to take all the heat?

I have just become aware of complex PTSD in the past few weeks. I was diagnosed with autism and ADHD about 5 years ago. I'm also an older adult. My question is can you have C-PTSD plus autism and ADHD? I lived through a lot of trauma as a young kid, and my autism and ADHD doesn't seem to explain some of the problems I live with daily. Should I also go back to the place that diagnosed me with autism to be tested for c-ptsd?

I've been told I have a disorganized attachment style by a therapist. I know I was taken from my biological parents as a 7 month old from neglect. Then I went to a foster home and then my grandparents. Can home changes in toddlers create disorganized attachments as well?

Does a person use food like a drug to self soothe uncomfortable emotional pain?

Can Emotional Childhood Neglect even if unintentional lead to cPTSD in some people. I have been diagnosed with cPTSD from my emotional childhood neglect and the trauma feels minor but the effects major

God I love this woman 👏

Is that inability to feel happy emotions accidentally diagnosed as depression?

What is HPA? What do letters stand for?

Knowing you’ve got CPTSD is just a small part of the battle. And while it has been a bit of a relief, it’s also been a nightmare. Like convincing the world the boogeyman exists.

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So what’s the differences between CPTSD and psychosis?