HANDOUT:Treating Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Complex - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. 17K likes. This page is a safe haven for people who suffer from trauma and all of its horrifying and terrifying symptoms. I know and understand because I too.
Acute stress disorder. Acute stress disorder is a DSM-5 diagnosis that applies in the first month after a traumatic event. It requires the presence of 9 or more symptoms from any of the 5 categories of intrusion, negative mood, dissociation, avoidance and arousal. These can be starting or worsening after the traumatic event.
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder develops in a subset of people with PTSD, usually after exposure to an event or series of events of an extremely threatening or horrific nature, most commonly prolonged or repetitive events from which escape is difficult or impossible. The disorder is characterised by the core symptoms of PTSD, as well as.
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder, C-PTSD, is a devastating condition that affects some people who have lived through long-term trauma, such as months or years of abuse. It causes symptoms similar to PTSD but also other symptoms that lead to significant impairment in relationships and quality of life.
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder develops from life-threatening trauma or abuse that occurs repeatedly and cumulatively over a prolonged period of time. In many cases, the victim feels powerless and sees no hope of escape. The abuse is often premeditated, planned, and carried out by other people.
According to Dr. Judith Herman of the Harvard University (1997), complex post traumatic stress disorder describes the symptoms of long-term or prolonged trauma, not adequately defined by ordinary PTSD.
None are explosive enough to solely cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But it’s the impact of dozens of smaller traumas combined that landed me in a psychologist’s office with a complex PTSD diagnosis. That was five years ago.