Rarely show outside scars. Trigger Alert articles may be triggering for some readers. Two articles came to my attention today. One comes from Lilly Hope Lucario sharing how she felt at the beginning of her journey of healing. https://healingfromcomplextraumaandptsd.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/complex-ptsd-is-an-isolating-severe-exhausting-disorder/ Her description so vividly described how I felt so often at the beginning of my healing…
I am always looking for others that are sharing information about CPTSD/PTSD. One of the blogs I found from Facebook has some great information. I am reading more and more of the pages and Lilly Hope Lucario is web page I feel I can recommend. Nice thing about read different pages is you get different…
Healing From Complex Trauma and Ptsd/cptsd is a page I follow on face book. She posted a question about what NEVER to say to a survivor. These are as many responses as my computer allowed me to collect. If you are offended by swear words or sensitive situations, don’t read this. My purpose for sharing…
I posted information before, I’ll probably post many more on Complex PTSD. I was not diagnosed with Complex-PTSD because it wasn’t identified yet. http://outofthefog.website/toolbox-1/2015/11/17/complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-c-ptsd My reaction is the main difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD is duration. PTSD usually with one or a cluster of traumatic experiences. Complex_PTSD refers to ongoing trauma that goes on…
Each year, I talk to the students studying early childhood education. Part of the required curriculum is learning about abuse. I discuss openly that I experienced every form of abuse, physical, emotional, mental, sexual, spiritual, social, and verbal. Some of these abuses overlap each other. Many times verbal abuse is also emotional abuse. Sexual abuse…
PTSD follows a life changing event. Not everyone that has a life changing event has PTSD but everyone with PTSD had a life changing event or series events. CPTSD, Complex PTSD, is difficult for some people because there is not one main event but many things that build up to create a dysfunctional way of…
One of the hardest things to cope with PTSD/CPTSD/PTS, whatever acronym you use, the darn thing is relentless. Working with counselors, journal writing, groups, reading books, psychology methods, medication, whatever you throw at it……it tears at the edges of your life. Ignore it for a time but it is always there. Day and night. No…
I learned something new from a comment. A person commented that CPTSD would be added to the ICD with the next version. OK….I didn’t know what it was so I asked Mr. Google. This is the first link I was given. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/10/icd-dsm.aspx The difference between the ICD and DSM. Here in the United States the…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 