5 signs of complex PTSD that most people miss

If you have Complex PTSD you may be particularly likely to experience what some people call an 'emotional flashback', in which you have intense feelings that you originally felt during the trauma, such as fear, shame, sadness, or despair. You might react to events in the present as if they are causing these feelings, without realizing that you are having a flashback.

Stop telling over and over that the answer is to go see a mental health professionals. In my experience, these professionals don't know anything about c-ptsd. At best their so called help did nothing useful apart from blankly looking at you or telling me that's terrible. At worsed, they managed to trigger me and then send me back home because the time was up and don't forget to pay !

"It Will Be Ok." 🪙

Reach out to a trusted mental health professional to explore more... really hard for many people to find it. Like trying to find a piece of hay in a needle-stack.

I hope someone can relate to this or exactly know what’s going on with me I feel completely crazy…it’s been 5 weeks now and I still feel scared constantly trapped in my head most of the time even when I’m feeling calm I’m never at peace I have not been diagnosed yet but I have went to the doctor and their guessing I’m going through anxiety but they didn’t do any blood test on me I would love to get diagnosed but I’m not sure where to go to get diagnosed I don’t make a lot of money I just want to know what’s wrong with me. But anyways what happened was….

I took a weed edible but a whole one stupidly….and I had a bad trip I started screaming bloody murder yelling that I was dying my body started shaking uncontrollably…and my mom was there to help me through it she laid me on the bed telling me to calm down…so I fell asleep…well my eyes closed but I still heard things around me. My mom came back because she was getting something cold for my head….but she couldn’t wake me up…I heard her yelling and screaming my name ….i was like a dead corpse I was paralyzed….my mom had to drag me to the shower and …wake me up again with cold water …..and every since I felt disconnected from the world it feels like I’m in a book now…. I don’t feel real this world doesn’t feel real….everyday I’m constantly in my head …I can never truly feel at peace …I’m so scared I don’t want to be like this forever I just want to feel normal again…I don’t want to die but …all of this pain everyday is just to much …

Please I beg for someone to relate to me and tell me what’s the matter with me am I going crazy? I really wanted to kill myself today to end all of this pain and suffering….but I didn’t cause I don’t want to die …I feel trapped in my head please someone tell me if I’m going crazy …I can’t take it anymore I cry every single day. I would do anything to be me again

Very normal very sensible...benn hacked sure not a good and happy experience
Is the worsts I ever experienced in my life and if the hacker don't know instead say small matter then this person great sin .hack is the worst experience in human in life if he don't know he not human at all.say small matter can see his cold blooded will have sijs if say that

I FOUND THE PHRASE it will be ok

"It will be ok"

😭 I actually spaced out half the video and had to go back to find the hidden message

Only since 2016...good grief

It will be ok

I'm mentally disabled and am not ready to live alone yet, but my parents are the reason I have been depressed my entire life and wish nothing more than to just die to never see them again, yet I have to see them every day. And they blame me for the abuse they gave me, my mother saying how I was evil as a child and my father saying he had to hit me, because his childhood was the worst , even though he could just move out at age 17 and I'm still stuck with them at age 21 and also have a medical traumata because of getting HLH as a newborn and constantly threw up from high chemotherapy.
I wish I could just never see them again, to cut them out of my life forever, but I have nowhere to go and would immediately go back to not eating anything for months.

Because Ppl took God Out Of Schoolds

Disociation well I learned something new again about myself.

Why do I cringe seeing this viedo?

Thank you

Well my goodness. I came here to find out if my dreams of reliving my son's death, six weeks ago is "normal" and I left knowing I have C-PTSD from a car accident I was in over 40 years ago. I guess there is no hope for me to get over my son's death, IF Im the type to hold onto this stuff for a lifetime.

Can this happen for bullying?

my psychiatrist has never even mentioned c-ptsd, even though I have explained the three years of college trauma I've had and still can't forget about it. When talking about it triggers me immensely.
sad, anger, regret, future anxiety, and the fear of never getting an education.

Is there any meds for this because I have had taken several and they all backfired in different ways. I'm isolate and people really don't like me and I try to please them and nothing is good enough.

it will be ok

I dated a girl for 4 months who has BPD and I swear, she gave me CPTSD. Everything in this video is exactly what I’m experiencing. She left me 2 months ago and completely destroyed me as well.

Does CPTSD have to do with fear or like feeling unsafe??? Idk why but i usually feel unsafe or uncomfortable when im home even though theres nothing to worry about

I was bullied in middle school for 3 years straight and it was an almost daily occurrence that I was bullied. People made fun of me, poked around at me, and generally did as much as they could to make my day miserable. Add the fact I grew up in a household with double standards, my step brother always got away with things, but I would always get worse punishments over things. My parents never helped me talk to the school about the bullying, and constantly told me to just stand up for myself and fight them if I have to. I am not a fighter, I don’t want to hurt anyone, so I just kept telling staff to help me, almost daily. They said they’d help but they never did.

Finally in 7th grade, I got so fed up with anger from being bullied that I said things I didn’t mean, and it got me emergency expelled. My bullies, still continue to get away with everything. I was punished and nobody even cared to hear me, I went to a therapist with my dad for a few months because they school told him to. My bullies then began manipulating my words that day and using them to get school security to search my bag, slander my name, and ruin my life. It never seemed to end, finally in 8th grade, on my last day, I finally snapped and fought my bully, but still afraid of punishment, I stopped because I never wanted to fight. I got punished again, and my bully manipulated the fight against me on social media and made my reputation even worse.

Finally in high school, I was finally rid of my bullying, but then I would be left alone for the entire 4 years. Nobody ever talked to me, listened to me, or cared about me. I had no friends, no girlfriends, no proms, no dances, nothing. I was ostracized for 4 years, and here I am at 21 years old.

My mental health had only worsened since graduating, with no real friends to speak of and no future plans, I began to feel constantly depressed. I sometimes even questioned if the world would be better with me never existing. I had started going to therapy, but i finally had a dissociative episode that caused me to scare my family. My step mom has completely stopped talking to me, and I have had only support in my mental struggles from my older brother and my dad. I found out only 2 days ago that my therapist had diagnosed me with C-PTSD. Honestly, I continue to question why nobody ever helped me, and just let me suffer in school.

Something's seem very similar to my issues. I was sexually abused by my cousin bunch of other traumatic experiences before adulthood but here recently had some relationship issues a rise and suddenly found myself at 42 yrs old seeing Big Bird yes the one from Sesame Street and started crying hysterically calling him my only true friend to this day I've never have felt like that in my 42 years on this earth could it be C-PTSD or inner traumatic child disorder so drained trying to figure this out hope to get therapy started very soon.

I work security, and I swear to god I get traumatized for a living

it has been 20 years... it never stops...

I have borderline personality disorders and tbcptsd OCD brain injury and anxiety and panic disorders

I’m starting to think I have it🫠

I don't know if I have it but it's pretty similar to what I'm experiencing... Right now I'm living in Ukraine and we all know what is going on here. We won't be moving out. I've gotten used to it already but there is another thing that might be causing me cptsd if I have it. In the school where I studied for 8 years a new girl came and starts bullying me so I had to transfer and it's really hard to adjust to the new school. I often feel overwhelmed by sadness and I really miss a teacher that I had there. I'm broken right now..

(I've read a few comments under the video and I really sympathise with each one of you. I hope it will be better for all of us even if it's naive to think that)

Oh damn this is very interesting I’m very retraumatized ontop of have huge loads of unresolved CPTSD.

I might have enjoyed it if you didn't have that very annoying high-pitched humming in the background

I've been diagnosed with this, have had it all my life. It's debilitating and there's sooo much shame, guilt, sadness, anger over what I've gone through. My siblings, (all of them much older than me), acted like my crazy abusive mother was God and get VERY angry whenever I tried to tell them what it was really like for me. She loved them, the sun rose and set with everything they said or did. They could do NO wrong. While I was constantly rejected, bullied, abused, unloved by her. I was told every day by her how much she hated me, and wished I were dead. Was only nice to me when someone else was around. ( Only time I wasn't getting screamed at about how retarded and worthless I was in her eyes). I never felt safe. Hands hurt. I'm sooo messed up, and, never having support from family totally blows They won't listen, accuse me of lying, etc..... I struggle ALL ALONE with my issues, and, my personal monsters in my head. If I didn't have my Kaley Jade Pug, I know she Loves me.Likewise, would not be here. I just wouldn't bother. No one would miss me or care that I wouldn't be here anymore. I don't matter to anyone. Sorry this was sooo long.

After the video i realize i do have C-PTSD but i don't know the reason why.(maybe traumas from past that i don't remember??).I hope who ever feel the same as me is getting better soon🤍

No 😑 Wrong! ! >> “PTSD” describes acute symptoms of trauma that do not extinguish over time. Literally “POST-Traumatic Stress Disorder”. It is a stress disorder in which the normal reactions to trauma do not continue to improve and diminish over time, intruding into everyday life.

This video incorrectly equates acute occurrences of trauma itself as PTSD, and describes PTSD symptoms as the definition for C-PTSD (+mentions of multiple events vs. single event).

The difference between traditional PTSD and CPTSD is the nature of the trauma itself. PTSD describes lasting and debilitating effects from a single, identifiable trauma . CPTSD describes the same lasting symptoms of disorder; intrusive re-experiencing and avoidance. Flashbacks may be more emotional or somatic in nature and sometimes difficult to attach to a single memory. The difference is that CPTSD is from many experiences over time. The trauma itself is COMPLEX in nature.

There may also be more traditional, single-trauma events, but on the whole, the trauma can be described as resulting from a series of events. Relational trauma would be such a case that may potentially develop into CPTSD, including Child Developmental Trauma in cases where PTSD symptoms are present.

I suffer from C-PTSD… I lived in an abusive house hold for 5 years of my life. Age 0-5, my first home, I witnessed my mum being beaten up and my dad threatened to push me and my mum of a sixth floor balcony, I still hear Screaming and shouting in my head. I am now 17 years old, I still remember some stuff. Even the scent of my house I can remember. At ages 0-5 I was moved house 8 times. My foster home abused me, they never fed me, they hit me and locked me in dark rooms. I never felt good enough. I learnt to dissociate with the world and pretend it was all a dream at a young age, and now I just naturally do it, without even thinking!! I’m currently writing an autobiography to help adopted children and foster children and give them hope for the future!! I’m currently getting help, and I absolutely love my therapist, but life is still hard. At age 8 I first had thoughts of ending my life, and still from this day I have these thoughts, but not as regularly anymore! I hope anyone who’s reading my comment, gets the help they deserves, and you can do it and I’m proud of you all ❤️

It will be ok :)

Idk why. But I cry every time I try to study this video to try to match it to me to see if I may have it.
That way, I can make a move if it is.

I might have c-ptsd but I don’t wanna self diagnose and I’m too scared to ask or get a therapist :(

It will be ok.

When you have depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, panic disorder and than pdsd 🙂

I have CPTSD. I don't agree this is wholly accurate. Not at all.

Careless inaccuracy throughout the entire video 😢

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Your voice has got my son through Hell, if you get help my family I would be indebted to you seriously 😒 😔

This video feels a little patronizing. Not a fan, I couldn’t even finish it to squeeze out the information.

I still can't figure out if I have C-ptsd or PTSD. Before I was born my mother had 2 miscarriages and then 2 after. Wen I was 4 I was having lunch with my grandfather and ended up watching him die that day. About 3 years ago my other grandfather died via skin cancer but I didn't dee it. I have been unable to cry unless it is death and sometimes not at all since I was 4. I cou!d not cry at my grandfather's {(2nd) who I will call jacky} funeral but was able to a month later. Recently my VERY old cusin died and I could not cry no mater how much I wanted to.

Today I watched the new movie "Life after death" and had a panic attack in there and couldnt stop crying for half an hour. (it is a good movie but don't watch it if you don't want to cry). My mother, brother and I had to leave early because of me.

Can y'all tell me witch one I have please or if I don't have either.

Itwillbeok. It will be ok?

I have cptsd

I’m worried I might have CPTSD after being sick last year. I can’t even say what it was or what they did to me. I know I’m traumatized but idk how severe it is.

It will be ok-

When I saw the letters spell, "it will be ok," I just... broke down and started to cry.