But shrinking it was glacial until I shifted into angrily counter-attacking it whenever I caught it biting me.” Whittling Down the Critic: Self-hate is his “parents’ most poisonous legacy…Many tools eventually helped, especially grieving self-compassionate tears.Milking Self-Kindness and Self-Protection out of Grieving: “Most of the silver linings that I discovered about my trauma appeared on the other side of grieving.”.I believe that many substance and process addictions also begin as misguided, maladaptations to parental abuse and abandonment – early adaptations that are attempts to soothe and distract from the mental and emotional pain of complex PTSD.Īccording to Medical News Today, C-PTSD is a combination of the symptoms of PTSD and some or all of the following (and maybe more):Īlthough Walker believes there are many paths to healing he provides on his site his own “top ten practices of ongoing recovery.” Below is my shortened version with brief excerpts. This is also true of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and some dissociative disorders which are similarly excessive, fixated freeze responses to trauma… Further confusion arises in the case of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), as well as obsessive/compulsive disorder, which is sometimes more accurately described as an excessive, fixated flight response to trauma. In my experience, many clients with Complex PTSD have been misdiagnosed with various anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as bipolar, narcissistic, codependent and borderline disorders. Although other clinicians have also worked on raising awareness of C-PTSD, Walker gets more personal than most-he’s both a provider of care and a survivor.Īs Walker explains, repeated exposure to abuse and/or neglect is usually the distinguishing dynamic behind C-PTSD, whereas many cases of PTSD arise from single-incident trauma.Ĭ-PTSD is not yet, however, considered as a separate diagnosis in the DSM-5.Īn intro to the manifestations of Complex PTSD by Walker (from his website’s FAQ’s): Therapist Pete Walker‘s 2013 book Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma acknowledges that there’s PTSD-and then there’s Complex PTSD (C-PTSD).
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