I have CPTSD AMA

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Go for it.

How did you acquire it?

Me too. Bloody awful isn't it. Which meds do you take if any? And why did it take me 50 years to get a diagnosis?

Just wondering what triggered this, was it abuse? And have you had a formal diagnosis?

Neglect, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse

It's quite well controlled these days so not as bad as it used to be. I'm on prozac and probably will be forever. I was on carbamazapine for a while but it just numbed me. I think diagnosis is slow because generally the MH system sucks but also because no one wants to acknowledge how widespread childhood trauma is.

It was triggered by neglect and abuse. And I have a formal diagnosis in that a clinical psychologist told me I had it.

I have CPTSD. My ex had straight up PTSD (he was attacked with a machete). How do you feel the differences between the two are?

Hi OP, thank you for this thread. I have worked with many people who have experienced childhood trauma and it has often seemed to have led to a diagnosis of personality disorder, especially for young women, and with the stigma that often entails. There is a campaign to change the name to reflect the fact that trauma is usually the root cause.

I wondered if you had any thoughts on this?

Please could you explain what this is?

Do you have a counsellor or type of therapy you'd recommend?

Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It has similarities to ptsd, but is caused by long term abuse/neglect - in childhood or relationships.

I was so relieved when I realised what it was.

Same, diagnosed 2 years ago. Year long psychology sessions with a woman who changed my life - thank you NHS. Also on highest dose citalopram, probably for life as I don't cope well when it's reduced. Finally loving life at the grand old age of 52.

Hope you are coping well.

Thank you for your reply OP. I wish you well. Will continue to follow the thread as I have both professional and personal (through family) interest in this.

What sort of therapy have you had and for how long?
Are you still having therapy or have you decided to live with it by keeping it under control with drugs?

I'm not the OP but I have CPTSD from childhood trauma and I'm currently having Schema Therapy which is the most useful therapy I've had so far...

I hate that so many women are diagnosed with borderline personality disorder / EUPD. It takes someone who has already had to go through trauma and then traumatising them even further by effectively giving them a diagnosis that makes them feel there's something wrong with them.

There's nothing 'wrong' with them; they're having a perfectly normal reaction to multiple traumas over multiple years.

Yep me too. Finally living life rather than existing after a year of trauma focused therapy. I am grateful to my therapist every day!

Me too.

It also took me 40+ years to be diagnosed. I wish that GPs who see patients repeatedly for recurrent MH symptoms over many years would investigate for this as standard. It would save a great deal of pain and misery.

Do you have any children? If so does it change how you feel about how someone put you through that as a child?

Me too. I'm currently having EMDR therapy but I'm not convinced it's for me. Has anyone else found it helpful, is it worth sticking with?

Remedial hypnosis can held with trauma/PTSD by letting the part of the mind that's trying to find a satisfactory explanation - which it does in order to protect you from it happening again - that there is no acceptable answer and therefore it can stop trying. A client described it as having oil poured over the memories - when she tried to grasp them they slipped away, harmlessly.