[SuperCatLover]

I found out I do have it formally dx a couple of months ago.

I realize as well I have zero trauma therapy experience.

I'm a walking fear monger at times.

The Dr. also was convinced I am BPD(borderline) but I am not.

I think my anxiety and avoident issues make me look borderline!

Today was a mess.

I wanted to move to a warm dry climate.

It's not happening yet.

I distrust those I live with most of all.

Maybe this is normal for C-PTSD?

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by SuperCatLover

I found out I do have it formally dx a couple of months ago.

I realize as well I have zero trauma therapy experience.

I'm a walking fear monger at times.

The Dr. also was convinced I am BPD(borderline) but I am not.

I think my anxiety and avoident issues make me look borderline!

Today was a mess.

I wanted to move to a warm dry climate.

It's not happening yet.

I distrust those I live with most of all.

Maybe this is normal for C-PTSD?

normal for cptsd that depends upon what diagnosis your treatment provider is using to explain your cptsd... you see here in america we do not have a diagnosis......label....... called cptsd.

the trauma and stress related disorders here in america are called...

Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders (category name)
Disorders in this category.....

Reactive Attachment Disorder
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Acute Stress Disorder
Adjustment Disorders
Other Specified Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorder
Unspecified Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorder

you will find this list in the american Psychiatric Associations diagnosis book called DSM 5.

for me my CPTSD problems are called Acute Stress Disorder.

in me my anxiety and depression related to the weather used to be called Seasonal Affective Disorder is now called Major Depressive Disorder single and recurrent episodes.

my suggestion is talk with your treatment providers. they can tell you what your CPTSD is in the newer diagnostic labeling and whether what you are going through is part of that diagnosis label now.

[Amyjay]

Complex PTSD is very complex! I am sorry you are having your diagnosis questioned on here. The poster is right that C-PTSD isn't in the DSM but many many therapists and mental health professionals give this diagnosis out of the USA and in the USA (as yours does!).
The reality is that the DSM-V doesn't decree reality. People are complex and people with trauma histories are even more complex. The cumulative affects of developmental trauma are just what they are... and the DSM-V is a guide that has sorted psychological and mental health symptoms into categories.
Many therapists fought hard to get the diagnosis of C-PTSD included in the DSM-V because there is not any other diagnosis in the DSM-V that describes the cluster of symptoms often found when human beings develop and form their very selves in conditions of interpersonal trauma. The DSM-V gods (why oh why do I imagine them to be a cast of elderly white men?) decreed it Should Not Be. They thought the symptoms could be described by other disorders.
Still, many intelligent and informed trauma therapists very professionally use that label because despite the DSM-V gods being ^%$#*$ they realise their clients cluster of symptoms are best described by what many many trauma therapists have collectively described as Complex PTSD. Just as your therapist has evaluated you and decided that your collective symptoms are best described as the condition collectively decided upon as being Complex PTSD. I am glad you have a therapist who is knowledgeable about trauma and its devastating affects. I am sure your therapist is not at all ignorant about diagnoses or the DSM-V and I wish you well on your healing journey as you navigate the complex waters together!

[amandalouise]

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.

[Fuzzybear]

[Fuzzybear]

This is just my experience, and in a different country.. I did read some of my medical notes and they were NOT accurate. In about a ten minute conversation though that could be difficult for even a good professional to be accurate (even if they wanted to be accurate)..

I hope your treatment providers are helpful