[SkyWhite]

Hi all. just want to let everyone on the PTSD forum know that people are now posting on the new Complex ptsd forum.

If anyone feels they have c-ptsd or has been diagnosed with it and/or being treated for it, please come and join us.

[kaliope]

thanks for the info........

[ChipperMonkey]

C-PTSD isn't a diagnosis.... If its put on any official document, the document will be rejected. And, there is no standard list of diagnostic criteria so pretty much anyone who has had ongoing trauma can say they have C-PTSD. I don't think its really helpful to tell people a diagnosis exists when it doesn't!

[SkyWhite]

Originally Posted by ChipperMonkey

C-PTSD isn't a diagnosis.... If its put on any official document, the document will be rejected. And, there is no standard list of diagnostic criteria so pretty much anyone who has had ongoing trauma can say they have C-PTSD. I don't think its really helpful to tell people a diagnosis exists when it doesn't!

There is a lot of confusion about this, I agree. However, there is enough evidence-based research to support the condition as a real form of ptsd. There are extremely specific symptoms to complex ptsd and not everyone who experiences trauma will have c-ptsd.

In the DSM-5 it's considered "disorder of extreme stress, not otherwise specified" or something like that, which can be a broad term, I know. But complex ptsd is what the MH profs call it off the record for clarity and to differentiate it from ptsd from a single traumatic event. There's a whole wack of excellent sites on the subject. Just because it's not in the DSM-5, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

For example, my pdoc diagnosed me with "ptsd" not complex ptsd, but my T, my pdoc and me all know it's C-ptsd.

[Hellion]

Originally Posted by SkyWhite

There is a lot of confusion about this, I agree. However, there is enough evidence-based research to support the condition as a real form of ptsd. There are extremely specific symptoms to complex ptsd and not everyone who experiences trauma will have c-ptsd.

In the DSM-5 it's considered "disorder of extreme stress, not otherwise specified" or something like that, which can be a broad term, I know. But complex ptsd is what the MH profs call it off the record for clarity and to differentiate it from ptsd from a single traumatic event. There's a whole wack of excellent sites on the subject. Just because it's not in the DSM-5, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

For example, my pdoc diagnosed me with "ptsd" not complex ptsd, but my T, my pdoc and me all know it's C-ptsd.

I am diagnosed with aspergers syndrome and that is not in the DSM now, but doesn't mean it doesn't exist just not what the DSM refers to it as, but the term is still used. As for C-PTSD even if its not in the DSM it can reduce confusion since C-ptsd implies ptsd from multiple traumas whereas PTSD by itself more implies a single traumatic event.

It is possible my ptsd could be from multiple things, hard to say at this point though...but maybe it will become more clear with the therapy I have started.