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Originally Posted by Teacake
When people talk about PTSD they can be referring to
1. Personality disorders, which are caused by early childhood trauma which interferes with attachments and interferes with childhood development.
2. Post traumatic stress, which is when a healthy person gets stuck in a physiological state of arousal that is normal, natural and healthy for threat to life, but injurious to the body-mind when it is prolonged.
There are stages of post traumatic stress. The body cant maintain high arousal forever. It has to come down. If it can discharge Its high arousal it can come down naturally. If it cant discharge it Naturally it does Its homeostasis thing to protect itself as it buena out Its glands through overuse.
People seem to prefer that childhood injury be called ptsd instead of personality disorder because some uneducated insensitive folks have a shif attitude toward borderline and narcissism and the others. Personality disorders CAN be cured/healed with patience and good therapy. They are not shameful conditions. Probably most of our beloved poets and artists and entertainers and historical figures had them and toughed out the symptoms or made their families suffer. The Lincolns and Kennedys were dysfunctional families. Now we can all heal those wounds and evolve so new generations arent burdened like we were.
The only reason I get shrill about ptsd not being c-ptsd is it confuses treatment. People go into the wrong treatment and dont get better.
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Not entirely sure what you mean....Personality Disorders and PTSD are not the same thing. However personality disorders can also have to do with traumatic experiences as well as growing up in an unhealthy environment, people with personality disorders can also get PTSD on top of it. So its not really a matter of people prefering to call personality disorders PTSD, they are different diagnoses and have different symptoms.
What then is the right treatment for c-ptsd? all that means is there have been multiple traumas rather than a single one resulting in the PTSD...so treating it as a PD if its PTSD would make no sense, of course if someone has both treating both would make sense.
Also PTS is not a diagnoses, i think that and acute stress syndrome are names for after effects of trauma anyone would experience...PTSD is when it doesn't start naturally decreasing and you remain in that state to the point it interferes with your life also not everyone exposed to trauma gets PTSD though everyone probably experiences post traumatic stress or acute stress syndrome when exposed to trauma but that wears off....for whatever reason some peoples brains aren't able to process it so it doesn't wear off which results in PTSD, having no support increases the chance of developing PTSD after trauma as well.
People with no mental health issues and people with already existing mental health issues can get PTSD, there is no requirement the individual is 'healthy' before developing PTSD.