yes great books but one thing when I was going through these books it got a bit confusing because since 2013 america no longer has a mental disorder called Complex PTSD. these book refers to the mental disorder at times (which is not what the mental disorder is now called in the USA, now its called by many different mental disorder names depending upon ones own individual symptoms or problems example my Complex PTSD grouping of symptoms are now called Acute Stress Disorder and another person I know that has this problem their mental disorder label transfers over to PTSD (no wording of complex in front of it) and another person I know with complex PTSD their label got transferred over to being depression with a specifier of depersonalization)

I did contact the authors to find out why this discrepancy in their books that were published after 2013. the answer was that the book was already completed and past editing process when the APA (American Psychiatric Association ) changed american mental disorder labels and diagnostics, and upon review before publishing they found that the books are still helpful due to the new meaning of the word complex PTSD meaning not the mental disorder but that a person has many challenges/ many elements to and with having PTSD / Acute stress disorder and other trauma and stress related disorders, and told to pay attention to the fact that the word complex in the book is no longer capitalized to represent the mental disorder, it is lower case to represent having many problems/ elements to a persons PTSD.

my point is when reading these books its easy to fall back into the pre 2013 (DSM IV TR) diagnostics and labels which america does not use any more. which can lead to problems if you are trying to get a present diagnosis for dissociative disorders or a present diagnosis of any of the mental disorders with in the trauma and stress related disorders categories .....as they are diagnosed and labeled today.

not saying the books are not helpful. They were, I knew enough about my problems and symptoms and was able to weed through the material, keeping my mind set on what my actual treatment provided diagnosis's are and kept my treatment provider in the loop so that what I was working on in the book was in conjunction with what my treatment provider and I were working on, not against my treatment plans. And I also followed the authors recommendation of reading their books in the concept of what the term complex now is in america (many problems not the no longer existing disorder label)

Elevated Soul there is a PTSD forum here on psych central that does deal with PTSD things like getting triggered into hypervigilence and other PTSD problems. just another option for you when things happen for you its for anything related to PTSD problems, there is a complex ptsd forum over there because countries outside the USA do use this label for a disorder and the board was here before 2013 change over for america and still fits for those with PTSD that has many different challenges/ elements, and all the other trauma and stress related disorders like acute stress disorder. heres the link

https://forums.psychcentral.com/post-traumatic-stress/