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Originally Posted by MyFathersGirl
I am going to start going to a group for abuse survivors but before I do that everybody who goes to a group at that agency has to go to an eight week group on PTSD and healthy coping strategies. I know for sure that I could use the healthy coping strategies but I'm wondering if maybe I should just allow myself to tune out (I'm pretty good at daydreaming) the PTSD stuff and just get through the eight weeks until I can get into the group I know for sure I need. I am wondering though because I have some of the other symtoms the leader was talking about yesterday.
My mom literally tried to kill me when I was nine (as in saying "I'm going to snuff the life right out of you and proceeding to wrap her hands around my throat.) When I tell somebody like a mentor who asks if there was any abuse in my history or talking to a psychologist for disability, etc I can picture the even like it happened yesterday even though it was 25 years ago but there is no emotion and in fact like one person pointed out I was telling them something horrible and smiling. I don't have nightmares and other than when I'm telling somebody I don't have a picture of the event either.
Can you have PTSD without the flashbacks and nightmares or are the symptoms of irratibility, depression, eating disorders, and addiction disorders common with any type of trauma and PTSD includes those aspects of reaction to trauma but is made worse by flashbacks and nightmares?
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yes you can have PTSD without having flashbacks and nightmares..
PTSD is a label that makes up a group of symptoms. But that does not mean you ****have**** to have every symptom in that group..
heres what the DSM IV TR says about PTSD and as you can see it does not say you ****have*** to have every symptom..it says you have to have
1 or more
B. The traumatic event is persistently reexperienced in one (or more) of the following ways:
1. Recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions. Note: In young children, repetitive play may occur in which themes or aspects of the trauma are expressed.
2. Recurrent distressing dreams of the event. Note: In children, there may be frightening dreams without recognizable content.
3. Acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociative flashback episodes, including those that occur on awakening or when intoxicated). Note: In young children, trauma-specific reenactment may occur.
4. Intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event
5. Physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event