Teacake, I have been "triggered" by your need to diagnose me as narcissistic/ BPD. I have talked about "your need" to do so with my PROFESSIONAL TRAUMA THERAPIST, who has told me YOU ARE WRONG.

I shared some things about me here and I deserved to feel "safe" and talked about being "misdiagnosed" by a psychiatrist from India who spoke with a heavy accent. This psychiatrist has made the "error" with other patients as well because he is "not" culturally sensitive. He doesn't have a good reputation especially with those in the field of "Trauma".

Do children get hurt from childhood abuse? Yes, infact children can also develop PTSD too. The other thing that can happen is "delayed onset of PTSD" too.

The problem I have with your need to tell others that they have a personality disorder and "not" PTSD is that it is not fair to a person who "is" experiencing "real PTSD". Real PTSD is nothing like a personality disorder with GAD. People with personality disorders don't experience "flashbacks and the crippling/ often debilitating PTSD cycles".

It seems to me that you find it very important to rise above all the other members here and tell others they don't have "real PTSD" and YOU are the only one that does. You are not anyone's therapist or psychiatrist here.

I fit the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, "unfortunately".

I cannot stress enough that members here are not allowed to diagnose other members. Most of the members here are working with "professionals" that specialize in "trauma work with their patients".

There is nothing wrong with talking about different challenges here, but not to suggest other members have these other challenges instead of what the professional they are seeing has told them, even more than one in some cases that has diagnosed them with PTSD.

OE