[in.neverland]

Hi there. I was wondering what exactly it is. All that comes up with the search is complex ptsd but is also say CPTSD is not an official diagnose. So can anyone post a link or give some information on the ''Prolonged stress disorder''? I'm not sure if it is connected to PTSD at all. Thank you

[Onward2wards]

C-PTSD IS prolonged and severe stress from what I have read. There is currently no specific diagnostic label for it, but it is a recognized phenomenon.

It appears that PTSD is a lasting set of symptoms created by a single, overwhelming negative event, while C-PTSD is caused by stresses that range in intensity (from bullying to physical assault, for example) but which recur for a long time, and from which there is no means of escape.

Please refer to these articles:

Complex Post Traumatic Chronic Stress Disorder on NeuroTalk
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on Wikipedia

[in.neverland]

well that is also what I've read but the term mentioned to me was prolinged stress disorder. From the search i understand it is the same . I was just wondering if someone can confirm it. If cptsd is not the diagnoze what is? i have found only one name in one artice an it is prolonged duress stress disorder - PDSD and unspecified prolonged stress somtwthing disorder. dont remember

[carrie_ann]

my doc spoke to me about this once ... where you have been in a heightened state of stress/distress for a prolonged period of time for whatever reason. the symptoms and reactions are the same as c-ptsd, it's just every doc/country has a different name for it, esp as c-ptsd is still not an officially recognised thing in many circles.

[Spiderlegs]

All I can say about it is that extreme prolonged stress has a cumulative effect. A kind of 'straw that broke the camel's back' effect. I can't point to 'THE' one traumatic event, there's just been too many. The last 'physical' abuse sticks in my mind, when I was assaulted by my son-in-law. The real trauma came when my own daughter accused me of assaulting him. And 20 years later it upsets me more than it did then because I'm reminded every day that nothing has changed and that I lost my entire family because I won't admit a lie just to make them happy. I tried that for the first 10 years of it and it just started all over again, only worse.

I think this "Prolonged stress disorder' or 'complex PTSD' fits me more than the classic Ptsd. I've had 4 generations of this miserable family torturing me for 64 years......oh, yeah, I'm so looking forward to another mothers day alone.

Ok, I'm out of here for the night, I couldn't cheer up anyone! Went outside to work, pulled a big heavy flower pot and damaged a little frog...all bloody, I felt like crap! So then I pull the thing back and mash it's mate! They probably lived there all winter and then along comes Spiderlegs! Been upset ever since.

[in.neverland]

I'm looking for book that would be helpful with CPTS and IS NOT CBT based.