Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Saying it means nothing to most people until you are drawn to another in our sad group; not sad because we are functionally sad- sad because there’s that many people with multiple traumas In their lives; We see the struggle #retroartprompt #poetry #cptsd
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The group shows strong support for recognizing CPTSD as a valid condition, with posts sharing personal trauma stories, referencing scientific studies, and discussing therapies like EMDR and somatic treatments. The tone ranges from serious and informative to somewhat casual or humorous, reflecting both respect and personal relatability, which contributes to a mainly positive and impactful overall perspective.
Most discussions acknowledge CPTSD as a real, serious condition, with several posts describing personal experiences or referencing scientific research, indicating support and recognition.
The varied discussions, from personal stories to therapy methods and recognition efforts, show high curiosity and engagement with the topic.
Several posts delve deeply into personal experiences, trauma specifics, and therapeutic approaches, reflecting meaningful engagement.
While some posts aim to raise awareness or provide resources, the overall influence on broad societal attitudes is moderate, as most focus on personal or niche discussions.
Abstract in brief
- Complex PTSD is a severe mental disorder resulting from prolonged trauma exposure, characterized by symptoms in emotion regulation, identity, and relationships.
- It has been recognized in the ICD-11 and affects about 18% of the general population, with a higher prevalence in mental health settings, reaching up to 50%.
- Treatment approaches emphasize multicomponent therapies that prioritize safety, psychoeducation, and collaboration, incorporating self-regulatory strategies and trauma-focused interventions.
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Most liked on X and BlueskySeptember is CPTSD awareness month ❤️
"that's called complex post traumatic stress disorder. not ptsd. they're different." oh my bad do you want me to tell the neuropsych who diagnosed me with ptsd instead of cptsd to go fuck himself then
Exactly And they live with complex post traumatic stress disorder.
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In short complex post traumatic stress disorder with obsessive compulsive elements is a land of contrasts, and the real discourse were the friends we made along the way
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Understanding Polyvagal Theory and Complex PTSD
In this video, we dive into Polyvagal Theory, a framework for understanding how your body responds to stress, danger, and safety. Complex PTSD affects many individuals, involving challenges in emotional regulation and…
Understanding Fear of Intimacy After Trauma
In this video, we explore the impact of Complex PTSD on trust and emotional intimacy. Discover why intimacy may feel unsafe after trauma, along with common coping strategies to protect against vulnerability. Learn about…
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A broken bond between parent and child may result in relational trauma which affects how the child sees and treats themselves. This article looks at how self-compassion can help those living with relational trauma and struggling with self-criticism. https://t.co/AIeDOfZz9J https://t.co/i74BEBvSyO
Self-regulation describes how we manage our energy, feelings, thoughts, and actions effectively. However, many CPTSD survivors struggle with emotions they do not understand. And they may fly off the handle without knowing where these behaviors originated. https://t.co/FwD3VZqv8R https://t.co/vCtBxhU793
Book The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for CPTSD: Heal from Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Find Emotional Balance, and Take Back Your Life PDF Download - Sheri Van Dijk MSW ➡ https://t.co/7QqpWtMeYR Download or Read Online The https://t.co/4cC4VZBw07
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CPTSD stands for Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It's basically PTSD that lasts a long time, where you're constantly in fight or flight mode, and your nervous system is totally fucked https://t.co/2o2pJgDUgD
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My recovery from complex childhood trauma namely child sibling sexual abuse, depression, anxiety, complex post traumatic stress disorder, addictions and my mental, emotional, physical health, wellbeing and relationship with God will always come before my music.
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@Kurumi0960 complex post-traumatic stress disorder
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the trauma that is inflicted i am learning about trauma one of my friends has complex post traumatic stress disorder that he has been trying to heal and it can even carry across generations in families book "The Myth of Normal" books.google.com/books/about/...
what sucks about complex post traumatic stress disorder is that, well, it's complex and it makes my brain do stupid shit like this. I wish it was a funny joke laugh haha but it's kind of debilitating and makes me nauseous but hey at least i can escape reality with substance so there's that
CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) #AIArtCommunity #Midjourney #MidjourneyCommunity #AIArtwork #AIArtists
not saying i have complex post traumatic stress disorder for sure but let's just say there have been some complex past traumas that cause stress
My guy, you didn't look up or even try to understand what hypersexuality is, did you. No amount of therapy can help hypersexuality, and is quite literally a result of Complex post traumatic stress disorder. "Thing thing doesn't hold up under scrunity" apart from, it does, you just ignored it.
It's not an abandonment complex if everyone does actually leave me
CPTSD (Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) makes relationships feel so hard. It is hard to trust someone, it is hard to feel safe around others, and it is hard to feel calm.
Our review has just been published - Practitioner training and user experience of Seeking Safety for people with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder - peerj.com/articles/200... @peerj.bsky.social
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Saying it means nothing to most people until you are drawn to another in our sad group; not sad because we are functionally sad- sad because there’s that many people with multiple traumas In their lives; We see the struggle #retroartprompt #poetry #cptsd
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CPTSD stands for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It’s similar to PTSD but develops from long-term, repeated trauma rather than a single traumatic event. This can include things like ongoing abuse (emotional, physical, or sexual), neglect, captivity, or exposure to chronic violence.
It's called complex post traumatic stress disorder and it has more symptoms and effects than a soldier who went to war with the thousand yard stare. NPD is short hand for narcissistic personality disorder.
Major depressive disorder, complex post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, audhd, once or twice a borderline person diagnosis and yet also
Same honestly. Just got diagnosed with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder… and man, realizing this is the reason for my avoiding everything… is so surreal.
September is CPTSD awareness month ❤️
It wasn't appropriate for the GMP to give a Community Resolution Order to someone who was suffering from an adverse reaction to medication & with complex post-traumatic stress disorder. I would like to interview you formally when it's convenient for you. If you consent to doing so, of course.
I'm going to achieve this through disseminating my life's dichotomy. -high functioning borderline personality disorder -complex post traumatic stress disorder. gaol / liberation: introverted intuition. -Malignant Machiavellian narcissistic abuse. - 10 pillars of executive function
I will continue doing what I am doing, providing people high quality journalism. And if you really, really, like my work, you can subscribe to my Substack. Every penny of that will go towards mental health therapy for someone with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Me.
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CPTSD=Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) refers to a state in which we are severely impacted in the present by emotional neglect in our childhoods. youtu.be/qOibW5LXt3w
You won. You are alive! Tried assessing your CPTSD? Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? This political environment is triggering for many of us survivors. I learned to meditate and discovered my brain benefits. I'm not giving up. We deserve a better life.
I think bpd is bipolar disorder and I think cptsd is Complex post-traumatic stress disorder And yeah they seem fine to me as well :3
great news! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex...
Riedl, D., Thaler, J., Kirchhoff, C., Kampling, H., Kruse, J., Nolte, T., ... & Lampe, A. (2025). Long‐Term Improvements of Complex Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) Symptoms After Multimodal Psychodynamic Inpatient Rehabilitation Treatment–An Observational Single Center Pilot Study […]
"From Faithful Pastor to PTSD Survivor," details the author's journey through complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) stemming from their experiences within evangelical Christianity and church ministry. Audio commentary, no sign in required. Enjoy. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/468...
Nor do I have anything I can do that would allow me to work and make money despite having High Functioning Autism and complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The issue is more than just greed. The issue is that this society doesn't have enough people like me and you, brother, and (cont)
I have also gotten major depressive disorder and (complex) post-traumatic stress disorder as diagnoses, which ring truer to me the majority of the time, frankly I self dxed the tism and adhd but they are fucking obvious imho
The children with funny food names yearn for the horrors of complex post traumatic stress disorder stemming from wartime experiences
That’s weird. I thought he hated asylums. I mean, what else do you call a place to warehouse the mentally ill? Will I be sent to one because I go to therapy for Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Complex post traumatic stress disorder and bpd Are very hard to differentiate between as they share a lot of the same symptoms
first i fill go through my morning pages notebook and finish typing up other memories i have to share further back in my timeline from there. that will give a lot of context for the complex post traumatic stress disorder that has shaded my entire experience in the past few years.
As a psychologist myself, I agree with everything
I suggest do reading about EMDR as a therapy modality, and in general some reading about Somatic therapy modalities & see if makes sense for you. Also, the the sub-Reddit on Reddit for C-PTSD (Childhood Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) has been helpful to me www.reddit.com/r/CPTSD/s/S4...
"complex" post traumatic stress disorder? i actually find it quite simple,
I have Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and I'm sick of people trying to get a rise out of me by being all fey Go away Grow some hair And refrain from commenting on other people's 'hair triggers' (If all the metaphors)
The gaslighting by the illegal government is on a scale that every American citizen now is suffering from complex post traumatic stress disorder. The nation is being abused, collectively and individually by the weakest fattest ugliest, most horrendous things to ever exist. The irony is lost on most.
"that's called complex post traumatic stress disorder. not ptsd. they're different." oh my bad do you want me to tell the neuropsych who diagnosed me with ptsd instead of cptsd to go fuck himself then
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Is a psychological disorder that can develop in response to prolonged, repeated experience in a context where the individual has little or no chance of escape. #CPTSD
Where do I start... Oh yeah, this is going to be a long read, but I'd really appreciate it if you got the time to read it at your own pace! Lately I learnt that what is happening to me is not "normal", I have Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Exactly And they live with complex post traumatic stress disorder.
Vicarious trauma is real and revictimization and what I prefer to call CETE- complex experiential traumatic encoding to replace CPTSD- complex post-traumatic stress disorder which is a useless term .. the amount of damage they're doing to these people is unquantifiable
Survivors of narcissistic abuse are frequently diagnosed with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD).
Major depressive disorder, dysthymia (persistent low mood), obsessive compulsive disorder, complex post traumatic stress disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. I am on four medications for them.
I really have Trump Derangement Syndrome. It comes with complex post traumatic stress disorder from childhood narcissistic abuse. That narcissism just triggers me. I can hear it in his voice. I can smell it though a screen.
June is PTSD awareness month, and we’d like to discuss C-PTSD today. C-PTSD or complex post-traumatic stress disorder is very prominent among survivors. . . . . . #ptsdawareness #ptsd #cptsd #cptsdrecovery #cptsdawareness #cbttherapy #betrayal #ptsdawarenessmonth #familydomesticviolence
honestly kinda wish they'd kept the old name
I’d love to know how they evidenced that statistic. Because I was a regular GP attender for decades with no underlying cause found but proliferating chronic symptoms. When I finally took myself to a private consultant it emerged I had textbook complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
i've got: Auditory Processing Disorder Autism Borderline Personality Disorder Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Dyscalculia Gender Dysphoria Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Panic Disorder Persistent Depressive Disorder (w/ notes) Unspecified Dissociative Disorder Possibly more
How do clinicians conceptualise negative self-concept in complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD)? https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.09.25329248v1
“Years later, though, as she struggled with the physical effects of complex post-traumatic stress disorder, the crushing weight of a civil lawsuit initiated against her and several other SBC defendants by her alleged abuser, and the lack of any meaningful progress in abuse reforms by the SBC, 1/2
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will a human actually look at my appeal? who knows; it's OK to encourage people to do financial crimes but not OK to... *checks notes* ... quote a post about complex post-traumatic stress disorder to talk about how it impacts me I don't have enough clout to talk about abuse per @moderation.bsky.app
I've been shadow-banned from BlueSky in under 24 hours with no end in sight because I stopped talking about how awful the world is and sought beauty instead mentioned my history of complex post-traumatic stress disorder and @moderation.bsky.app decided that I /must/ be a spammer b/c I discussed it.
@Namanaspeaks https://t.co/aJqcC5mTIu
And then there are those of us with complex post-traumatic stress disorder who would literally love to be able to s*** at work.
Thank you. Is well over a decade ago at this point, but... Well... Funny how complex post traumatic stress disorder makes time not real I guess
6/6 Bullying has lasting effects. In my case, I suspect Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (cPTSD) as it built upon childhood trauma. cPTSD can make it hard to trust or relate to other people because these events often involve other people harming you. That’s not a euphemism, either.
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder, from Wikiedia, the free encyclopedia at en.wikipedia.com
In short complex post traumatic stress disorder with obsessive compulsive elements is a land of contrasts, and the real discourse were the friends we made along the way
C-PTSD = Complex Post Traumatic stress disorder Bpd= borderline personality disorder Pmdd = Premenstrual Dysphoric disorder Sud = substance use disorder
I notice that one of the side effects of CPTSD(complex post traumatic stress disorder) is involuntarily fixating on what and how you are feeling and becoming trapped within it, and most all other senses disappearing. Neat little trick that helps me get through days better. Maybe it'll help you.
You laughed at a video about Complex Post traumatic Stress Disorder.
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? i find it quite simple actually?
That is BARELY an exaggeration btw YA BOY MADE A FUCKING LIST OF ALL MY PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS HE CAUSED/CONTRIBUTED TO
2. In her memoir, “A Flat Place: moving through empty landscapes, naming complex trauma" she says about those fields she saw on the way to and from school, "But I spend my life in that flat landscape." In this book, she writes about complex post-traumatic stress disorder through flat places.
As it's Mental Health Awareness Month, hi - I'm gonna be aware of my mental health ❤️ 3-4 years ago I got diagnosed with C-PTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder) and OSDD (other specified dissociative disorder). Which essentially explained my anxiety and depression and why CBT didn't work.
disorders. —--- schizophrenia / psychosis. former
In this podcast we discuss the treatment of (complex) post-traumatic stress disorder using #EMDR therapy (De Jongh et al., 2016; doi.org/10.1002/da.2...), and the widespread myth about stabilisation. open.spotify.com/episode/1UcU...
I can't get vitamins that I need a high dosage of covered because I can supposedly get them over the counter. Except I can't get the right dosage over the counter.
Every so often I'll see something and I'll think of a joke but the joke hits too close to home, and then even as a grown man at 42 years old I burst into tears. That's what it means to have Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder sometimes. In case you've ever wondered. And that's when on meds.
I was raised by someone with NPD and I suffer complex post traumatic stress disorder. I can tell you that if your conspiracy nutjob brother has children, he spent his time with them trying to brainwash them. These kids are being in an abusive household and could suffer lifelong mental illness.
Sophie Shen, Clinical Research Practitioner at @merseycarenhs.bsky.social has co-authored a paper examining the prevalence of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) in people who have probable personality disorder. Read it here: ow.ly/PWpI50VsWHi
I have complex post traumatic stress disorder.
Inescapable conditions that fuel constant flood of infinitely mangled tangled irrevocable irreparable ongoing traumas Start@phenotype attached2gender Assigned @ birth predetermination; predestination ‘Gone2Glory’ D.i.d Dissociative identity disorder Of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Yet Excess wh!te matter brain disease & or condition That makes me increasingly prone to seizures, strokes, & amnesia from prolonged non treated chronic stress As well as CPTSD: an acronym4 Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
"Complex post-traumatic stress disorder [...] is a stress-related mental and behavioral disorder generally occurring in response to complex traumas (i.e., commonly prolonged or repetitive exposures to a series of traumatic events, from which one sees little or no chance to escape)."
// cw: transphobia, mental health Denying trans kids medical care is unfathomably cruel frankly. It's like looking at the definition of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and going "hmm yes we should cause this in more people".
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> complex post traumatic stress disorder. It is often due to childhood abuse and trauma. Because, and I say this gently, you can not determine what is or isn't traumatic to someone. If your brain thinks your life is threatened, it can cause PTSD. If you're a child whose life is constantly threatened
My dad would have turned 75 today. He died in June 2006 (56), losing his life in an accident related to his many years of complex post-traumatic stress disorder and the comorbid alcoholism that went hand-in-hand with his layers of pain.
My dad would have turned 75 today. He died on June 23, 2006 (56 years old), losing his life in an accident related to his many years of complex post-traumatic stress disorder and the comorbid alcoholism that went hand-in-hand with his layers of pain.
Sadly, yes. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD)…
I love the concept of "complex post traumatic stress disorder" like the name is just like "well I don't know what the fuck is wrong with ya but it's complicated" it's so fucking funny to me. Like yeah just "you got issues, man" the diagnosis it's so fucking vague
Studies recommend multicomponent therapies starting with a focus on safety, psychoeducation, and patient-provider collaboration, and treatment components that include self-regulatory strategies and trauma-focused interventions. Thanks Maercker et al! https://t.co/x3bYfvC4cy.
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