Comments on: Co-Occurring Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/06/14/co-occurring-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:30:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Frank Sterle Jr. https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/06/14/co-occurring-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/#comment-12438 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:30:23 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=237477#comment-12438 My own experience has revealed that notable high-scoring adverse childhood experience trauma resulting from a highly sensitive and low self-confidence introverted existence, amplified by an accompanying autism spectrum disorder, can readily lead an adolescent to a substance-abuse/self-medicating disorder, including through eating. It’s what I consider to be a perfect-storm condition with which I greatly struggle(d), yet of which I was not aware until I was a half-century old. I believe that if one has diagnosed and treated such a formidable condition when one is very young he/she will be much better able to deal with it through life.

I understand that my brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammatory stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines. It’s like a discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’ and simultaneously being scared of how badly I will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires. Though I’ve not been personally affected by the addiction/overdose crisis, I have suffered enough unrelenting ACE-related hyper-anxiety to have known and enjoyed the euphoric release upon consuming alcohol and/or THC.

]]> By: Frank Sterle Jr. https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/06/14/co-occurring-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/#comment-12436 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 01:28:08 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=237477#comment-12436 It’s known that trauma from unhindered toxic abuse, sexual or otherwise, usually results in a helpless child’s brain improperly developing. If allowed to continue for a prolonged period, it can act as a starting point into a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammation-promoting stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines. I consider it to be a form of brain damage.

The lasting emotional/psychological pain from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one’s head. It’s like a discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’ and simultaneously being scared of how badly I will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires. It is solitarily suffered, unlike an openly visible physical disability or condition, which tends to elicit sympathy/empathy from others. It can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is treated with some form of medicating, either prescribed or illicit.

]]> By: Jeoffry B. Gordon, MD, MPH https://cptsdfoundation.org/2021/06/14/co-occurring-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/#comment-12251 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:33:56 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=237477#comment-12251 I greatly admire your discussion and ability to use your life’s turmoils to comprehend their impact and mobilize them to help others. Your discussion is clear and very helpful. As a supplement I want to call your attention to my PACEsConnection post: “Psychiatry’s catastrophic blindness and what to do about it” of Nov 9. I discuss how completely harmful psychiatry’s perspective is. PTSD and CPTSD are very important to recognize but they are the tip of the iceberg of maltreatment injury. Psychitry’s DSM does not acknowledge the pathophysiologic impact of childhood maltreatment trauma. It is not acceptable to squeeze the issue into the PTSD catagory and mental distress is far more extensive than the severe circumstance of CPTSD. There needs to be a diagnostic category for “child abuse trauma disorder” covering the full range of distress less severe than CPTSD. The DSM needs a whole rethinking. Currently its blindness impairs epidemiology and research into therapies. This is discussed extensively in a paper I coauthored, “Recognizing the importance of childhood maltreatment as a critical factor in psychiatric diagnoses, treatment, research,prevention, and education” in MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY.

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