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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a popular form of treatment, though some studies have shown this approach doesn’t work for all cases of PTSD. There are a number of different approaches to treating PTSD and CPTSD. Trauma manifests itself in our bodies - emotionally, physically, and mentally - and this journey has been my way of finally releasing it. The healing process hasn’t been an easy one for me personally, but it’s been restorative in a way I know I deserve.

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Until I was given the skills and the tools to know how to handle my emotions and deal with my triggers, I didn’t really know how to help myself or help those around me with helping me. But over the last three years, I’ve come to realize it doesn’t have to be a life lived in silence. I know firsthand just how scary and isolating living with CPTSD can sometimes be.

Getting my diagnosis was the first time I felt like I could not only improve my connections with others, but that I could finally release the trauma from my body and make the healthy changes I needed in my life. But with this diagnosis, I began to understand that what I was experiencing was a lot of big feelings that left me frightened, reactive, and hypervigilant - all of which were very reasonable responses to prolonged trauma. Many professionals in the industry were only just now beginning to recognize it.Īnd as I read through the symptoms, I felt a sense of relief.įor so long I felt like I was broken and as if I were the problem, thanks to a lot of shame or guilt. When I sat down to meet with my trauma therapists, they made sure to acknowledge that the labeling of CPTSD was still fairly new. Since identified by researchers, the overlap has led to many folks being misdiagnosed. While there are distinct differences between CPTSD and PTSD, there have been several symptoms, specifically emotional sensitivity, which can be mistaken as borderline personality disorder or bipolar disorder. This means that how we treat the two aren’t identical by any means. While there are a lot of similarities with PTSD, the differences in symptoms include: People who have received a diagnosis of CPTSD have often experienced extreme violence and stress over an extended period of time, including childhood abuse or prolonged physical or emotional abuse.

For those like me with CPTSD, the diagnosis is different from PTSD, but that doesn’t make it any less difficult. But that doesn’t mean that trauma can’t be chronic and ongoing, which is where we find instances of CPTSD. Some events may not be as traumatic for some individuals as they are for others.Īccording to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, trauma is the lasting emotional response that results from living through a distressing event. Traumatic events can be difficult to define. A person with a PTSD diagnosis is someone who has either witnessed an event or has participated in some type of traumatic event, and afterward is experiencing flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety regarding the event. PTSD is a mental health condition that’s triggered by a single traumatic life event. What I found was that, while PTSD and CPTSD may seem similar, there are huge differences. I wanted to learn more not just for myself, but to be able to have open and honest discussions with others who may not know the differences. And until people are given the tools and words to really define what trauma is and how they could have been affected by it, how can they begin to heal?Īs I started to become open with people with my diagnosis, I started to research the differences between PTSD and CPTSD. It has its way of leaving an imprint on the brain for life, whether we’re consciously aware of it or not. Trauma is much broader than we tend to imagine. In other words, it couldn’t be me.īut as I started to settle into my diagnosis, I began to understand the layers that PTSD and CPTSD truly have, and how these stereotypes didn’t fit the reality. It was soldiers who had witnessed and experienced war firsthand, or people who had lived through some type of traumatic event, like a plane crash.

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For so long, I had this misconception from film and TV of who could live with PTSD. At first, it was difficult to accept that I’d experienced trauma. Working alongside my trauma therapists, I realized I wasn’t alone, and that healing from this type of trauma was possible. Growing up, I wasn’t given that type of modeling.

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