Does C-ptsd start during or after the traumatic event?

[Fightingback16]

My therapist suggests I have C-PTSD due to 12 years of domestic abuse.

I was just wondering when this happens. Is it possible that it developed and I had this and suffered from it during the relationship. Or does the process start during the abuse and the symptoms start after?

*un-remember

You need to reprocess them with help. If I accept them rather than fight them they ease. It's also about acknowledging and feeling the feelings you felt them but you weren't able to do at the time because it wasn't safe

Mine started during the relationship. When you have to change/ modify your words, behaviour, actions, to try and creep round someone and not set them off, when you have to watch who you speak to, what you say to others, what you wear, make sure you don't let anyone else appear to big you up when something you've done has gone well... When you have to change everything and control other things in order to prevent a blow up or other negative treatment of you/ your family... You're already experiencing it.

I spent years with such chronic, awful adrenaline surges that I didn't eat properly and my weight was funny. I still get those surges which are accompanied by a massive sinking feeling in my stomach, and a nasty buzzing tingling in my ears and in my skin, when something triggers it.

For me my flashbacks are memories of my own mental destress. My husband eventually led me to a nervous breakdown and my problem now is remembering how bad I was mentally. I felt it coming this morning. I felt like I was loosing my mind and I had to remind myself that this response is a memory from the past when I was loosing my mind. I hate having these memories of how my mind was getting out of control and at that time not having any idea why because I didn’t know he was abusing me. It’s hard to look back at a time when in so much distress and feeling the distress but trying to convince yourself that now you know the reason why It happened. Knowing doesn’t change the memory of it. I remember things were so bad that I was unable to deal with life. Now I try and convince myself that my mind can only get stronger because I know longer have to process anymore new abuse. The only trouble now is I find it hard to process new life stresses.

It is an odd diagnosis because I have many of the same symptoms now as I did during. Perhaps they need to have during traumatic stress disorder also, DTSD!
I find it hard to think about processing something which has already been processed but very badly. For example when he threatened me I processed that as shut up and next time do better.