https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/08/15/quitting-work-because-of-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:39:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/08/15/quitting-work-because-of-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/#comment-22221 Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:39:56 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=243949#comment-22221 Hi. I really liked this article, it really touched my heart. In 2021 I got diagnosed with ASD and Adhd after a burnout. I was 48 at the time, and worked for 15 years in a hospital. I just recently found out about CPTSD and believe more and more that I got misdiagnosed. I suffered neglect and physical abuse as a child. The symptoms between ASD and Adhd and CPTSD do overlap, but in my case CPTSD make more sense. But anyway a great article. Especially the following I found very touching ” I know that when I was forced onto disability, I wept seemingly endlessly because I had loved my job and felt a failure for needing to quit. But as my therapist told me, I still had a full-time job called healing.”

]]> https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/08/15/quitting-work-because-of-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/#comment-16723 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 17:00:55 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=243949#comment-16723 […] Although this article focuses on complex post-traumatic stress disorder, it is also pertinent to dissociative identity disorder. You cannot have DID without also having CPTSD. I wrote this for another site CPTSD Foundation. […]

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