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Old Nov 22, 2015, 04:15 PM
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Here is a good link for you to read, it includes symptoms of not only PTSD but Complex PTSD.

Complex post traumatic stress disorder (complex ptsd, pdsd, shell shock, nervous shock, combat fatigue), symptoms and the difference between mental illness and psychiatric injury explained

In this link is a nice chart that explains the difference between Mental Illness and Psychiatric Injury. People who come across this have found it so helpful because it puts their challenge into the perspective they have struggled to articulate. There is also a chart that shows the difference between Paranoia and Hypervigilance and that too is important because from your past, you suffered abuse both physically and psychologically, therefore you have psychiatric injuries you deserve to get help with, to understand better, and mourn with the right therapist who KNOWS how to help you do just that.

Notice there are other links in the beginning that you can click on as well that can be very helpful.