Not sleeping lately so i have been looking up some of the stuff my t has been talking about lately. Initially, he said he thought i had ptsd but changed to cptsd so i was looking up treatments because he is talking about us really starting more 'work' related to progress. He asked me if i had a preferred method of addressing things and I told him to decide. I don't even want to know or think about it until i have to actually start living it. I have started wondering what it might look like because he said our appointments will go to 2 hours and he wanted to do 3 days in a row.

I trust him, so i am not questioning what he is doing, i am just wondering and noticed when searching around that there is a lot of talk about cptsd and ptsd being treated differently but not a lot of suggestions on best therapy methods for the cptsd. From what i read and what i try to connect with what he has said makes me think he is going toward what i read as exposure therapy.

Any insights into either that or what other things might await me? Lol

I know I can just ask him, he actually has tried to talk about plans a couple of times and I try to stop him. Difference is, we here can only speculate and then I can keep myself from freaking out as much because I can not be CERTAIN as i would be if he tells me in detail, but i can also consider some possibilities at the same time. Clear as mud?? Lol.

We are still a few weeks away from really beginning, so just curious if others thoughts.

[jelly-bean]

I have been diagnosed with PTSD so your post interests me. Unfortunately I can't help you much because I have no idea what CPTSD is. I even Googled it and came up with nothing. I would really appreciate it if you would explain what the C is for. Thanks!

As I understood from my t, the ptsd is anxiety reaction to a single crisis situation. Cptsd is from multiple situations like repeated child abuse.

[Open Eyes]

The C means "complex". Many psychologist/specialists have wanted a separate diagnoses of complex PTSD because, while the symptoms can be the same as PTSD that developes from experiencing a trauma, a person can develop PTSD from experiencing several traumas, even traumas that occured during their childhood which the therapy is going to be more complex simply because the challenges an individual may have can be more complex.

Every once in a while I post this Link, it's worth reading through and it does talk about Complex PTSD.

Complex post traumatic stress disorder (complex ptsd, pdsd, shell shock, nervous shock, combat fatigue), symptoms and the difference between mental illness and psychiatric injury explained

[wheredidthepartygo]

I'm not sure what the common course of treatment is but i've been mostly looking into Somatic Experiencing (SE) for the main goal of releasing trauma but i've come across some others like Internal Family Systems i think it's called which also seems very helpful and interesting

it's hard to find information on c-ptsd since many people aren't aware of it since it's not actually in the DSM and is mostly a proposed diagnosis... but then again anything to do with childhood trauma/long term trauma/emotional trauma feels like it's all way behind everything else because no one wants to look at it and admit how common it is

from what i've heard pdoc's seem to diagnose c-ptsd instead of a personality disorder because it's "less stigmatizing" but also because it allows much more room for diagnosis whereas the diagnosis of a personality disorder is fudgin weird and rigid and yeah idk

not everyone with trauma develops a personality disorder but all personality disorders are from trauma

so whereas a personality disorder for many seems like a life sentence and just a basic "flaw" of them and their personality that they can never fix, coming at it from a ptsd angle and from one of trauma, where our symptoms are products of an overworked nervous system, overrun by the undischarged energy stored in our bodies from our trauma

now we've just got to release that trauma, the same way animals do (with SE or something similar that works for you )