SuperCatLover... I want to clarify something here.... before everyone starts getting in an uproar.....

I am in the USA. Treatment providers here cant just arbitrarily throw a diagnosis on someones............files........... here treatment providers use diagnostic manuals and specialized tests and interviews to decide what mental disorder a person has, the way things are set up here treatment providers. each one of our mental disorders comes with a number coding, name, and list of symptoms/ problems/ criteria.

I wasnt saying a treatment provider can not tell you, you have CPTSD.

Wwhat I am saying is we dont have that name and coding. So when a person has CPTSD they write it on the files as its matching name with the DSM5.

I have CPTSD. its matching name on my files my treatment providers keep is called Acute Stress Disorder.

I was making a suggestion that you ask your treatment provider what your match is.

our system we have now since 2013 is so much more inclusive and individualized. one persons CPTSD may be called Acute stress disorder where as another persons CPTSd is called one of the other disorders on the list.

think of it like if you were sneezing, you go to your doctor and your doctor tells you you have a cold, the doctor may tell your friend who is not sneezing but is coughing that they have a cold and another friend can still have a cold but their symptoms are runny nose. one doctor may say the cold is a cold, another may say its a virus and another may say its upper respiratory, but its all the same thing and on the files they have to use their special wording and codes.

our mental disorders are like that now, we have a book that helps mental health treatment providers say what disorders a person has, many can have CPTSD now but its wrote differently in the files depending on what each persons combination of problems are.

Again Im not questioning whether you have CPTSD or not. Im suggesting you ask your treatment provider what the match is that they write on the files and have them tell you whether what you posted here is part of your CPTSD or not.

We cant tell you whether what you posted is part of your CPTSD or not. only your treatment providers can give you this information that they put in your files.