CPTSD Compared to PTSD #AskATherapist

CPTSD Compared to PTSD #AskATherapist //

What is the difference between PTSD and CPTSD? Well, it's complicated. How do you treat each one and how do you know if you have CPTSD or PTSD? Watch this video to learn the difference so you or your loved on can get they help that's needed.

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[elaineb]

I do it the simple way: PTSD is caused by one HUGE THING. CPTSD is caused by a LOT of bad things on top of each other

[terrence]

"..keep shining because we need your light. And if you feel like your light is going out, get help. We are here for you, and so are others"
Thank you for this

[karenvickers]

I was diagnosed with PTSD, Severe Depression and Anxiety years ago. My father was EXTREMELY abusive. I've gone to therapy for over 3 years. And I've been on anti-depressants on and off since I was 18. Since going to therapy I now have some self-esteem. Not completely there, but I'm still working on it.

[lisam]

After living with diagnosed PTSD for 15 years (and undiagnosed for decades) and many years of therapy I can say one thing definitively-it can get better, but it does not go away. I had to basically remake my life-much smaller than before-and I'm doing very good. But PTSD is a sneaky beast and it will pop up when you least expect it. But learning how to deal with your symptoms (and how you respond to them) will keep them from taking back over. But it's still flipping exhausting to deal with when they do come up. Thank you for this video.

[memandylov]

The biggest mistake I made in my healing journey was assuming that I would suddenly be okay and everything would be perfect as soon as I got out of my parents' house and as soon as I was out of school away from all the bullies and out of harm's way. What I wasn't expecting was for my brain to start tormenting me and holding me back in the same way my environment had been my whole life, and it came with a lot of self-loathing and hatred and anger, and a lot of self-destructive behaviors. I started putting myself into dangerous and traumatic situations in a desperate attempt to be happy and I tore myself apart instead. I had been raised with abuse and gaslighting and fear and uncertainty and I felt unsafe for so long that I never realized all those feelings would come back to follow me and torment me even after the threat was gone. I've had some great times and I've had some horrible times since, but the battle with my mental health is still very much ongoing and I'm still struggling to figure out who I am and why I am the way I am, and it's so incredibly frustrating when you don't have the words to explain to someone why you act the way you do and what the cause is when it's not just a singular cause. It's a several hour rant that still manages to miss well over half of the full story because it's simply not possible to list every single thing that made you who you are, so much so that when someone asks me what's bothering me I can only say I don't know because as soon as they ask, my brain gets so overwhelmed by trying to figure out the actual source of the problem that I can't pinpoint just one thing.
I wish more people understood what cptsd is and how it affects people because I'm sick of hearing "it's in the past, just get over it and move on" as if it's that easy. It's not. In my mind, it's very much still real and very much still a problem. You don't go through 19 years of torment and then pop into the real world and suddenly it's okay because it's over now. I wasn't okay when I moved out of my parents' house. If anything, I was so overwhelmed with emotions that it drove me into what I can only describe as a subtle state of mania, and as soon as something happened to trigger the trauma still hiding underneath, it all came crashing back down and I discovered all these mental hurdles that were in my way and all these new symptoms started popping up and even nearly two years after walking out on my parents, I'm still discovering new triggers and new aspects of my personality and it's honestly exhausting.
I wish society would get rid of this notion that things in the past can't hurt you and you should just move on and live in the present. As much as I'd love to just live in the moment, my past left me with a lot of invisible wounds that can't just be healed in an instant. I'm in the best position I've ever been in life currently and even still I've been depressed in bed for the past five days, not all because of my past but because current events are reawakening past feelings, and unfortunately also creating some new feelings I haven't had to deal with before. It's exhausting and painful and I just wish society understood that. It'd be a lot easier to heal if people weren't so pushy about it and just understood that healing is a process, not a simple action. Physical wounds don't immediately get better when you put a bandage on them, and some may never go back to normal, so why do people expect mental wounds to act that way? I've accepted that I will never be exactly the same person I was when I was young and naive and unbothered by the hardships in life. I have scars, I have struggles, I have emotions, and some of them made me a better person in ways, but some are still devastating, and as much as I'd like to bury those parts of me and just be okay, it doesn't work like that and I'm tired of being told just to make it work like that

[cynthiab]

I had CPTSD. It took 10 years of therapy to feel like I'm healed. It was a long hard road that I didn't ask to walk, but the work I did in therapy was absolutely worth it. It can get better ❤️

[embee]

Nothing of value to add beyond telling the Almighty Algorithm that this is an important and valuable video and channel. Keep on, Jonno.

[cappuchino_creations]

For everyone with hypervigilance I can recommend the Practise of Minimalism to support your mind a bit. It is not the solution but living minimalistic gets a lot of stuff of your mind and it makes it just more quiet...

[lemonadiewoodlander]

EMDR and its "newer" version EMI therapy need to be more talked about!!! Other forms of therapy are great, but EMI honestly changed my life because it's much less confronting than other therapies such as exposure therapy (at least, in my experience) and works just as well, if not better.

[lmzfwdi]

Jonathan, my name is Elizabeth. I am newly 18 years old and have aged out of the foster care system here in the U.S. I entered into care eight months ago and through this process I have been blacklisted from my entire family (to include extended family). I was very recently diagnosed with CPTSD and have been on my own healing journey trying to understand why I feel the way I feel, and what I can do to change that. A huge part of this process has been watching not only your Mended Light videos, but also Cinema Therapy. I have never felt more seen than when I watched this video. The assurance that I am not alone is something that I have highly underestimated in the past, but I now know that it truly helps. I'm still healing and learning, but I am very glad that I have access to people like you. Thank you so very much.
Lots of love,
Elizabeth Mayne.

[LadyVader]

My abusive, narcissistic mother regularly dragged me to mental health workers desperate for proof that I alone was at fault for the all the violence at home and validation that she was the victim. So ironically, their enabling it is a large part of the cptsd I'm currently living with.

[shantelleschimpf]

I needed this.
My CPTSD is almost exactly what you said I live through everyday.
For 9 years I have been in therapy, counselling, and on medication.
Last year I was able to start my dream (going to university) because of the help I was given.
But the pain is real and it is still everyday.
If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, or you are at the beginning of your healing journey, I see you and I'm with you.
It will take a lifetime to live with the pain, but if you try really hard everyday, you will get where you want to be ❤
You don't need to do or be anything for anyone, be the person you needed ❤

[grappisrule]

Thank you for this video. I have my second session on Monday for rebuilding myself and my confidence and managing my CPTSD. A few points made me emotional in this but it was all good to hear and know. Thank you for what you do

[kitwayne]

I asked before and you responded, but I'm not sure if you made a video of this already : How do you heal from trauma when you're still being traumatized? Thank you for adding the note about C-TSD, like C-PTSD but still ongoing. I didn't know about that. I'm past the childhood trauma, but at 45 years old there are still things happening in my life I would consider traumatic and abusive. It's not so easy to get out of these situations, for a myriad of reasons. My only thought is to just get angry and violent, and I don't really want to do that.

[brittanywilcox]

Thank you for this video! I have a Dissociative disorder and CPTSD and love to learn more. It is so helpful in my journey to health!

[jimmoriarty]

5:00 "... sometimes your family or your friends are the source of the trauma and you can't turn to them. So you have to build a new family. .." Thank! You! So tired of being told that 'family is family' so I should go to them no matter what, even if they are horrible for my mental health.

[debfryer]

Jonathan I was diagnosed with CPTSD in 2020. I’ve figured out that I’ve experienced a total of 84 years (partly concurrently) of abuse including parental, spousal and “friend”. The violence which accompanied the pandemic sent me over the edge and I became a bag of nerves. Since leaving the familiarity of St George in 2014 I have developed serious anxiety while driving and increasingly when facing new experiences. I’ve been in EMDR for 6 months now and next week am going to twice weekly. It’s definitely been a great benefit and I’ve been able to express many feelings which were numbed over time.

[daisyduck]

I was JUST sitting here crying, 6am- sun not even up yet, &I wondered to myself if you had a video for cptsd yet, because I thought it might help my husband understand why I’m still a huge mess even though it’s been years. Bam- it’s your most recent upload.

[Larindarr]

THANK YOU for. being one of the VERY few therapists talking about CPTSD. Or more aptly named CTD

[budgetinghowtostayafloatin]

Thank you for this video 😊 having it defined the difference is helpful to know. Would love a video on how best to support those with these disorders.
In our home we have cptsd in my partner and have recently had a teenage girl join the family and i am sure has ptsd and is under assesment. (Both are getting therapy or will be soon) but tips on supporting mental health like this outside of tgerapy and what that could look like in diffetent age groups and roles like friend, partner, parent, sibling etc i think many could find heppful as well as staying sane urself lol 😊
Thank you for all your work on this show u have helped a lot with our family here detailed understanding and medical support of cptsd etc outside of being war related here in uk is... not great.