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Trigger warning What are your experiences with a Complex PTSD diagnosis and treatment?

Unknown userMember16 Dec 2016, 2:31 pm AEDT

Trigger warning What are your experiences with a Complex PTSD diagnosis and treatment?

Hello Everyone

Just wanting to start a discussion on Complex PTSD and what it is like seeking treatment, the stigma that is associated, or the difficulties this diagnosis creates in life?

It would also be useful for people to share some some self-help tips to help people self-care and manage their symptoms?

There seems to be a lack of research and knowledge about Complex PTSD, so I thought it would be useful to start talking about it.

Lunar

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Zoe7Senior Contributor23 Dec 2016, 5:06 pm AEDT

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Oh shit - all the time. Any little trigger can send me into a completely dissociative state - anywhere from seconds to minutes.

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BlueBaySenior Contributor23 Dec 2016, 5:12 pm AEDT

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@Zoe7
So I guess I shld tell my psychologist.

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Zoe7Senior Contributor23 Dec 2016, 5:17 pm AEDT

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Definitely - sounds like a completely normal reaction to how your mind deals with the trauma. I can completely shut down and sit for hours and not know where the time has gone. Has been times in my life where I have completely lost days. It;s not a nice feeling when you don't know where the timehas gone but you do know what has put you intothat state.

Next question - multiple traumas from each or just once each?

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Zoe7Senior Contributor23 Dec 2016, 5:21 pm AEDT

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Hi @Appleblossom are you ok?

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BlueBaySenior Contributor23 Dec 2016, 5:35 pm AEDT

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I think multiple trauma from all 3 abusers not including trauma from the abandonment of my parents

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Unknown userMember23 Dec 2016, 5:43 pm AEDT

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That's about where my line of comfort is - I cannot name the multiple layer traumas. I find it distressing to think of a way to formulate what has happened.

I dissociate, leave the here and now and also regress at times.

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Zoe7Senior Contributor23 Dec 2016, 5:49 pm AEDT

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Do you have vivid memories of some instances and then nothing for others?

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Unknown userMember23 Dec 2016, 6:20 pm AEDT

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Sorry but I would like to leave this conversation - too triggering.

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NikNikSenior Contributor23 Dec 2016, 6:30 pm AEDT

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No worries @Former-Member
I hope you're okay. Let us know if you need a hand with anything.

If you just want to hang out - we are over in Friday Feast, if you want to drop by.

Just do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself.

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Zoe7Senior Contributor23 Dec 2016, 6:36 pm AEDT

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@NikNik Hope Yggy is ok.

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