Complex PTSD

In my day PTSD wasn’t acknowledged

I spent a fortune on psychiatrists who told me that there was nothing wrong with me

Recently a wise young lady made me aware of CPTSD — it explained so many of my symptoms

“Complex PTSD (C-PTSD or CPTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop following prolonged or repeated trauma, rather than a single event. In addition to traditional PTSD symptoms, it profoundly impacts an individual’s emotional regulation, self-concept, and ability to maintain healthy relationships.”

“C-PTSD is typically the result of long-term, repeated trauma, especially situations where escape feels impossible.”

 Common origins include

Childhood abuse

  I suffered this from my mother whose abuse lasted  63 years and 8 moths   (until the day she died)

I have flash backs to when I was in my cot  

I was shut in the wood burning part of a wood stove when it was lit when i was four

she admitted when i was ten that she bashed me because she felt like it

Yet her mental abuse was worse

She told lies at my expense (and Dads when he was alive) to get attention or to get what she wanted

 or chronic trauma

I count at least 12 major traumas

Prolonged domestic violence

I had two abusive husbands