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Related: About this forumAnyone here have experience with C-PTSD?
I just became aware of this, in the context of looking for answers for a family member. It sure makes a lot of sense.
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Anyone here have experience with C-PTSD? (Original Post)
grasswire
Feb 2013
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libodem
(19,288 posts)1. What does the 'C' stand for?
I'm unfamiliar with it.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)3. The c stands for 'complex'
Traditionally PTSD results within a few months following a single traumatic experience
cPTSD is a similar condition but it follows multiple exposures to trauma and a sense of not being able to get free of them...
libodem
(19,288 posts)4. Thank you
That would be a tough diagnoses to have. One trama is bad enough.
libodem
(19,288 posts)2. That's okay
I looked it up.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)5. I have it.
When I was diagnosed, they said PTSD, but maybe the C hadn't been added yet.
I clearly qualify for the C, though.
undergroundpanther
(11,925 posts)6. I have it
and dissociative identity..among other things.