My memory is sketchy at best…I have, in the past, recorded important conversations with officials etc due to my poor recall…I have what some have referred to as trauma amnesia, but I suppose it is dissociative amnesia. It is seriously problematic in my interpersonal relationships because I forget details of conversations & have to “ask again” … the embarrassing part is that they are details I “should” remember…sometimes important details leaving me & likely others wondering how I can just forget…I try to reassure people it isn’t that I don’t care, I just go blank…I understand the fear of being “crazy” cause I have had that fear my entire life due to my dad’s serious mental condition…he was “crazy” according to those who had to deal with him…he was diagnosed with schizophrenia after the Korean War, but I wonder if he had Cptsd from his childhood stuff prior to that…Ptsd from WW2 & Korea, that ‘they’ referred to as “shell shock”…anyway I come by it honestly cause I believe it was hell on wheels living with him and the rest of our chaotic household…

I missed, ‘some people traumatized individuals’. Maybe this might be ‘some traumatised individuals’, or ‘some traumatised people’. Please excuse my British English spelling.

There are clear ambiguities in this article which need an editor’s touch. It doesn’t read well, and the message is too important for errors to cause confusion, particularly for those who are befuddled and bewildered by their experience of CPTSD.

For instance, I suspect the line, ‘Interestingly, some people traumatized individuals may not show symptoms for many years after the traumatic event. In fact, a paper published in the Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review found that trauma-exposed people who presented without PTSD showed significantly smaller hippocampal volume, smaller amygdalae, and smaller cortical regions than healthy control subjects,’ should read ‘who presented WITH PTSD’. Forgive me if I’m wrong.

I’m very grateful for the article, but it really does need a sub- or copy-editor to help it be clearer and more accurate. The subject is too important not to be accurate. It only needs a light touch.

I was put on Effexor very high dose for a psychotic depression from Cptsd
My second round after Cptsd all childhood from a malignant narcasstic mother
This time it’s 9 years on and it permanent nothing touches it and I developed a host of severe chronic health conditions and told I have brain damage
My psychiatrist tried everything over 8 years then said nothing more he could do. I’m still on the Effexor that’s 9 years. Do you think beneficial to come off it. I don’t know if it’s doing anything or just making me numb
I think my Cptsd is permanent
3 rounds of it thanks to my evil mum

I’m not sure how we would do that, but you can ask about it using the contact us at https://cptsdfoundation.org/contact-us/ Thank you for reading my articles, it means a lot to me. Shirley