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PTSD and CPTSD in Veterans
Human brains are hardwired to react viscerally to traumatic events. They then store those emotions in our central nervous, so that when we feel and experience similar future events, we will be...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD): the Similarities and Differences
There is some confusion about the differences and similarities between PTSD and CPTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) sound alike but...
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Men: How Men Express the Symptoms
For many years, mental health professionals and the general public alike have studied and applied symptoms of CPTSD as related to women. However, men react differently to the stressors that cause...
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) and Men: The Ignored Problem
With the advent of the #MeToo movement, the public has been forced to examine the horrific tragedy of women suffering at the hands of sexual predators. We have learned through marches and very...
The Final Six Symptoms of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
In this series, we have concentrated on the symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and highlighted how each one changes lives. This article will focus on the final six...
Finding An Unofficial Diagnosis of CPTSD.
I'm a forty-two-year-old woman, haunted by mental illness for as long as I can remember, and yet it's only within the last two years that Complex PTSD has become known to me. No one in the mental...
Continuing the Series on The Symptoms of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Symptoms 13-18
Recently we have been discussing the twenty-four most common symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). We’ve discovered in pieces one and two in this series how people living...
Reconnecting to your Body after Peritraumatic Dissociation
In this article, we will talk about one of the most common symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder - dissociation. We will explore different methods and tools that help us to reconnect...
The Life Altering Symptoms of CPTSD – 7 through 12
Previously, we began looking at the symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). We learned together how life-altering the symptoms of this enigmatic disorder are to the everyday...
A Closer Look at the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACEs)
The ACEs Study In the early 1990s, a physician named Vincent Felitti who worked for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego asked a patient who had lost a great deal of weight in a weight loss program why...
Neuroplasticity and Mindfulness
To understand the treatments for complex post-traumatic stress disorder, it is helpful to understand the interaction between neuroplasticity and mindfulness. What is Neuroplasticity? Until the...
A Closer Look at the Symptoms of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
There can be no doubt that the symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder are life-altering and debilitating. In this article, we begin a series outlining the symptoms of CPTSD a few at a...
What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
“Complex PTSD comes in response to chronic traumatization over the course of months or, more often, years. This can include emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuses, domestic violence, living in a war zone, being held captive, human trafficking, and other organized rings of abuse, and more. While there are exceptional circumstances where adults develop C-PTSD, it is most often seen in those whose trauma occurred in childhood”.
