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Old Apr 16, 2017, 10:46 PM
Purple Heart Purple Heart is offline
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Originally Posted by Skies View Post
For those of us with CPTSD, are you also struggling with major depression and what has helped?

It feels like this depression episode really hurt my self-esteem, and it has been cumulative. The longer I'm depressed the worse it is.

I don't really feel sad; mainly fatigue, lack of motivation, lack of enjoyment. So many problems follow the lack of motivation.

I find chronic depression worse than flashbacks, dissociation, anxiety, panic attacks, etc. That stuff is temporary and despite the episode the other night, i feel i have more control of it overall than the depression.
The way you describe your depression is similar to what I had last decade. Then several years back it moved onto C-PTSD because I was ready to confront the past. So I started having flashbacks. I still get depressed sometimes but it is temporary.
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