Anyone with C-PTSD?

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  • bethany_rose8
    bethany_rose8 Posts: 102 Member
    newmanel wrote: »
    Yes, from years of physical, verbal, and emotional abuse at a young age. Despite longterm treatment for depression, I only just now started CPT therapy to target it. It's worked well for me so far. Added you.

    Thank you so much for sharing, you are so strong.
    Yes practitioners are only just starting to realise many of these symptoms being depression and anxiety have causes that need to be worked through so that people can heal properly. Xxxx
  • WanderingRivers
    WanderingRivers Posts: 612 Member
    bethany_rose8 wrote: »
    KurumiSophia wrote: »
    While I don't have C-PTSD, I do deal with PTSD myself thanks to physical, mental, verbal, and emotional abuse from my mother and sexual abuse from a friend of my parents.

    Complex post traumatic stress disorder is caused by multiple traumas that throughout life, but is not often diagnosed as C-PTSD but instead PTSD of BPD (borderline personality disorder), to me it sounds like you've been through multiple traumas.
    Thanks so much for commenting, you are strong x

    BPD is another one of my dx as well (I have 4 in total.)

    Truth be told, I don't feel especially strong simply because if I was strong, I would have turned my mom in to CPS as soon as I figured out we weren't a normal family. A lot is just making it through on autopilot and stupid stubbornness.
  • cmdipa97
    cmdipa97 Posts: 10 Member
    EMS work has left me with some pretty messed up thoughts that burden me quite a bit. Feel free to add me.
  • SuperCarLori
    SuperCarLori Posts: 1,248 Member
    I have been diagnosed. I don't take meds.

    My father abused me and I went on to self medicate with hard drugs for almost twenty years, which also placed me in horrifying situations.

    Weight gain is a relapse trigger.

    Exercise helps, but I seem to be a real *kitten* quite frequently. My guy doesn't seem to mind.

    I'll be your friend. Anyone else who likes scarred, odd fellow misfits, I'm down.
  • nqfafa
    nqfafa Posts: 2 Member
    I have worked very hard to overcome the effects of multiple traumas including two brutal marriages and now work with domestic violence victims and addicts. I am fulfilled by the work that I do and am grateful that I have thrived in spite of my past, but occasionally, I am still triggered by someone's stories or situation or by random intrusive thoughts or memories and I spiral into depression and disordered eating. It is helpful to know that I am not the only one...
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