What Is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Trauma & Narcissism Redefined

Caroline Strawson

Narcissisticabuse, Health & Fitness, Narcissist, Self-improvement, Education, Recovery, Mental Health, Trauma

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

I'm sure most of you have heard of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. But there is something else called Complex PTSD. So in today’s episode we are talking about the Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

What You Will Learn In This Episode:

What Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is
The difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD
Being busy all the time as one of the traits of Complex PTSD
Avoiding certain things and lack of memory as possible signs of the Complex PTSD
How dissociation, flashbacks and intrusive thoughts manifest in Complex PTSD
Long-term health risks of this disorder
The neuroscience behind the Complex PTSD

If you can relate to some of the symptoms of the Complex PTSD, it doesn't mean you're going to have this forever. It just means that trauma is stuck, and what we have to do is unstick it, process it, get it time stamped into the past and move forward. I believe you, but it is your responsibility to do something about it. And I’m here to support you.

Resources:

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the narcissistic abuse recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Stawson and I'll be sharing with you
0:09.2	awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive.
0:16.8	I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are now and I believe you.
0:21.4	And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation.
0:30.3	So you know that I talk a lot about trauma, narcissistic abuse and how they both go hand in hand. And today I want to talk to you
0:40.4	about complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Now, I'm sure most of you have heard of PTSD, so
0:47.7	post-traumatic stress disorder. And many, many times we associate that with maybe a soldier who's gone out to fight in the war,
0:56.6	maybe somebody who has been in a car accident, and we associate post-traumatic stress disorder
1:03.0	potentially with those people.
1:05.0	Now, there's something else called complex PTSD.
1:07.6	Now, complex PTSD is different to PTSD. So PTSD, as diagnosed in the DSM, really is about a
1:16.0	single event. So like a car crash, like maybe going off to Afghanistan and being in a war zone,
1:23.6	maybe suffering, maybe you found out you're suffering with cancer, for instance.
1:27.9	So it's really these single events in your life that we can then, if the information isn't
1:33.8	processed properly, then we can get stuck and we start to suffer with what's called PTSD.
1:40.0	Now, with PTSD, this really is an information processing disorder. It's where our brain hasn't
1:47.2	finished processing the events that we have been involved in so that we can function onwards
1:54.1	from a daily basis, that we still get triggers in the present moment causing us to have a trauma response in our body
2:02.7	because it's taking us back to being in that single event. Now, complex PTSD is what we associate
2:10.3	more with trauma that has happened over a longer period of time. So this can be abusive relationships,
2:19.1	so narcissistic relationships.
2:25.2	It can be maybe kidnapping or being held hostage, something like that. So where it's been over a longer period of time. So I know pretty much every single client that I see has all
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