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Originally Posted by HALLIEBETH87
Ive been dxd with ptsd for childhood trauma. I have classic symptoms. Mostly nightmares, flashbacks and hardcore avoidance of the person, where it happened, and even the town she lives in. If I *have* to go there I have panic attacks and paranoia that shes coming to shoot me. its no fun.
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That does sound a whole heckuva lot more like PTSD than BPD! This is from the same article I cited last:
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However, two BPD diagnostic criteria specifically related to attachment disorganization or insecurity are quite distinct from PTSD in the DSM-5 and from cPTSD: terror of abandonment or rejection, and alternating idealization and devaluation of others. This is consistent with the laboratory research finding that physiological reactivity by individuals with childhood sexual or physical abuse histories who met criteria for BPD was strongest when exposed to scripts highlighting themes of abandonment, while those meeting criteria for PTSD but not BPD had peak physiological reactivity when exposed to scripts of traumatic (e.g., violent, abusive, life-threatening) events.
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I'm the same, keep reacting to the traumas and not to perceived abandonments. I don't have any BPD traits that I can think of, despite enduring a wealth of significant childhood trauma (and quite a few more since). People respond differently to these things.
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