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When Your Anxiety and Fears are Complex PTSD from Complex Trauma (C-PTSD): The Truth about Childhood Trauma, Relationship Trauma, Workplace Trauma, Natural ... Trauma
Many people are treated for paralyzing anxiety, insomnia, and panic attacks every year. They suffer through their life, anxious and afraid. They are worrisome and fatigued. They go through their lives feeling as though they are on autopilot. They cannot make decisions, or they often make the wrong ones. Their chronic state of anxiety and trauma sets them up to experience more trauma, and to become even more deeply emotionally wounded by their subsequent trauma.
These individuals seek the help of doctors and therapists. They try many different medications. They are still at a loss as to why they are feeling this way or what to do about it. They never seem to get to the root cause of the anxiety and the other symptoms they are experiencing. They wonder if they will ever get relief.
So many people don’t realize that their anxiety and fearfulness might actually be called Complex PTSD. Their symptoms could be caused by complex trauma that occurred in their lives long before they could even speak. A toddler simply must feel as though they are not in control of a situation that is terrifying for them to set up the conditions. They would reach out for their parent, who is supposed to be their stable base for emotional support, and their parent isn’t there.
Complex PTSD means that your brain has undergone emotional and cognitive changes because of experiencing something painful. The term was coined by Judith Herman. Your brain is trying to reprocess the event by referring back to it in your dreams, flashbacks, daydreams or your intrusive thoughts. You can’t seem to get away from the feelings that were caused by the event. And you seem to be triggered by something else, which dredges up the negative feelings over and over again. You are terrified that the event has a chance to happen again, even if it doesn’t.
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These individuals seek the help of doctors and therapists. They try many different medications. They are still at a loss as to why they are feeling this way or what to do about it. They never seem to get to the root cause of the anxiety and the other symptoms they are experiencing. They wonder if they will ever get relief.
So many people don’t realize that their anxiety and fearfulness might actually be called Complex PTSD. Their symptoms could be caused by complex trauma that occurred in their lives long before they could even speak. A toddler simply must feel as though they are not in control of a situation that is terrifying for them to set up the conditions. They would reach out for their parent, who is supposed to be their stable base for emotional support, and their parent isn’t there.
Complex PTSD means that your brain has undergone emotional and cognitive changes because of experiencing something painful. The term was coined by Judith Herman. Your brain is trying to reprocess the event by referring back to it in your dreams, flashbacks, daydreams or your intrusive thoughts. You can’t seem to get away from the feelings that were caused by the event. And you seem to be triggered by something else, which dredges up the negative feelings over and over again. You are terrified that the event has a chance to happen again, even if it doesn’t.
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15 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 15, 2015
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January 12, 2019
Fort as if it were written about myself
I picked this book in order to better understand Complex PTSD and I literally felt like it was written about me. I have so many highlighted passages I lost count. Thank you for this book!!!
I picked this book in order to better understand Complex PTSD and I literally felt like it was written about me. I have so many highlighted passages I lost count. Thank you for this book!!!
June 30, 2016
Clear and well written
This small book gave me new insights on Complex Post Traumatic stress disorder but I would have liked case studies or examples. I'm glad I read it.
This small book gave me new insights on Complex Post Traumatic stress disorder but I would have liked case studies or examples. I'm glad I read it.
November 14, 2016
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