Posted by fleeting flutterby on October 12, 2009, at 16:25:51
In reply to Re: c-ptsd, a brand new key » blahblahblah, posted by floatingbridge on October 11, 2009, at 20:38:27
> > What is the dif between c-ptsd. and standard ptsd?
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> Umm, I'm not sure. What I'm getting from reading is that in complex ptsd, core identity formations were interrupted at an early age or maybe, whatever age, by protracted exposure.<<
---flutterby: Yes that is how it's been explained to me by the psychologist I used to see and the current T. I see now.PTSD is just about single trauma where C-PTSD is many traumas usually expereinced at a young age but not always-- and the most important thing is the loss of self with C-PTSD.
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> Anyone else know?<<
--flutterby: there is talk(I found an article on the internet about it-- by doctors that specialize in prolonged traumas) about separating C-PTSD from PTSD in the next DSM book. Since they are finding that prolonged trauma changes the mind to deeper degrees than only PTSD.
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> I'm ordering a book suggested in the Wiki link, "Trauma and Recovery".
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> http://amzn.com/0465087302<<;---flutterby: tis a VERY good book, at least it was for me. Saw so much of myself in many chapters. Good reading to you-- and hopeful healing.
much hope to you
flutterby
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