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Originally Posted by alittlelikemusic
Primary doctor? Not a psychiatrist?
Hmm. I don't think your life has to necessarily be threatened. You just have to be traumatized, really.
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I was told this by a pdoc.
The DSM-V criteria for PTSD.
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The person was exposed to: death, threatened death, actual or threatened serious injury, or actual or threatened sexual violence by...
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I was never threatened to death or serious injury so I can't qualify to have PTSD from my emotional abuse from my mother even though it is a main factor for having GAD and MDD.
I feel traumatized by these occurrences and literally feel fear around my mother because of this. Not like life or death but just scared that I will trigger something in my mother.
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