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Originally Posted by Trace14
If you have C-PTSD and you dissociate, that doesn't mean you have a dissociative disorder, right? It's just a coping mechanism, right? This stuff is so confusing.
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Im sorry we can not answer this directly related to you and your problems...
what I can say is that PTSD type diagnosis's here in america now include dissociative symptoms that do not enter the severity of dissociative disorders.
Also here in america people can have more than one diagnosis at the same time.
to find out if your dissociative symptoms are part of your C-PTSD diagnosis or a dissociative disorder, or both you will need to contact your own treatment providers.
also if you are in the USA you might want to talk with your treatment providers about updating your C-PTSD diagnosis. complex PTSD label is not in the DSM 5 though its symptoms are with in more than one newer PTSD label... this way should you need help and your regular treatment provider isnt available the treatment providers who are available will understand what your diagnosis is and how to help you.
for example my complex PTSD diagnosis was changed to the newer diagnostic label of Acute Stress Disorder because i needed help and when I told the treatment providers I had a diagnosis of complex ptsd they had no idea what that was, they tried looking it up in the DSM 5 and could not find it, then they contacted my treatment provider who told them what the new diagnostic label for me was. It would have saved a lot of hassle, stress and time if I thought about updating this diagnosis of mine back in 2013 when the new diagnostics came into use.
the newer diagnostic labels for this are...Acute Stress Disorder, Other Specified Trauma and Stress related Disorder, Unspecified Trauma and Stress related Disorder.
your treatment provider will be able to tell you which one you fit into based on what your Complex PTSD symptoms and criteria are.