6 Signs of Complex PTSD | CPTSD

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I was diagnosed with Adhd twice. Turned out it was CPTSD. Changed my diet, started exercising, journaled obsessively, picked up meditation, read a lot of books, watched a ton of videos, took courses, ate a few psychedelics, went to therapy and worked with a life coach.

It took a few years but I'm doing great now.

My advice to anyone suffering with this is TRY EVERYTHING. Don't stop. Keep going. It absolutely can get better.

CPTSD has made me view everything as if it were my fault. If someone is having a bad day, is upset, angry at me, or sad, I feel that somehow I am to blame, even though that is not true. It's hell on earth.

I was diagnosed with cptsd since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting cptsd. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

I am diagnosed with CPTSD not from terrible physical or verbal trauma but from what some call a "tricky" family. I lived my childhood with an emotionally unsafe and moody mom, an absent, busy, or tired dad, a moody and bullying (but sometimes protective) older sibling. The damage in a family like this is equally debilitating but super hard to unpack because no overt crossing of lines took place and adults looking from the outside tell you it's all fine. No teachers step in. Neighbors don't see the moods. There is no mandatory reporting for a child who is just consistently on the back burner until someone feels like or has the time to do otherwise. When emotional health and personal agency is compromised so thoroughly the damage runs deep. I'd appreciate seeing this addressed on this channel as well as the overt physical and verbal abuses.

It's horrifying when you cannot recall details or main events of the trauma to even defend yourself when people paint you as an awful person. This happens so much in severe sexual abuse, being held captive, and drugged, and when you finally escape and find your way home, it is the victim's reputation that gets destroyed instead of the real perpetrators and the callous people who keep the lie alive. It is not the trauma that destroys us, but the lack of empathy, indifference and pure evil of those you know.

When she said," I'm here, you're safe" a tear fell.. All I want is to feel safe.

I’ve had someone tell me that, “it’s not happening anymore, you’re here, you’re not in it anymore.” And we really do need to hear that.

One of the most devastating parts of CPTSD is the depth of the distortions about myself. I appreciate when she said that those distortions extend to other aspects of life separate from the trauma. Very true in my experience. I feel like CPTSD makes you forget how to respect yourself. You don’t see your strengths or worth. You only see your weaknesses and vulnerability. And that’s paralyzing and not a place anyone should operate in. You can and deserve to love and respect yourself. And because of the lessons you learn during the healing process, you may even find that they deeply help someone else’s situation, even if it’s different. Hold onto hope.

So many poor people around the world damaged by there parents. God bless all narcissist survivors. We are the best 🇮🇪

My family all called me a “space cadet” my whole life, but it was just brain damage from trauma.

I’m in my early 50s and my childhood trauma is bubbling to the surface. I’m watching a lot of stuff on YouTube trying to make sense of how I’m feeling. It’s really tough atm, I’m crying at different points during the day almost everyday, but I think this is part of the healing process (at least I hope so)

CPTSD is no joke and get's commonly misdiagnosed as ADHD due to brain fog, dissasosiation caused from flashbacks, and concentration issues that come with it - it is difficult things to overcome CPTSD since it is caused by complex ongoing trauma(s) but it is def doable to overcome it. Mine was caused by an emotionally abusive mother and physically and verbally abusive father and then two back to back abusive employers/ workplace.

As someone overcoming it try everything and hit it with everything you've got: trauma therapy, EMDR, bodywork, yoga, exercise, changing your diet (with the guidance of a dietian), getting 7-9 hours of sleep every night, having healthy social connections and being in good healthy enviroments as much as you possibly can (get away and stay away from toxic people), getting a pet and spending frequent time in nature.

Everyone tells me I’m so tough and brave to have survived and endured having a very traumatic childhood and physically/emotionally abusive marriage. I’m not strong inside, it just looks like I am from outside.

I’m wrecked with sadness. I’m angry that therapy has cost me thousands of dollars to keep my mind sane all because my parents abandoned me and knowingly left me in a abusive home.

I stopped being able to picture my life at 15 because in my mind I didn’t think I’d live beyond that.

Blaming themselves - when a person who is abused finally confides in someone, many many clueless people will say "so what did you do, to deserve" ...whatever aggressive behavior is being described. These clueless people refuse to accept the existence of evil done by other people, the deny that emotional abuse exists, etc.... so the target of abuse gets little support.

Psilocybin saved my life. I was addicted to heroin for 15 years and after Psilocybin treatment I will be 3 years clean in September. I have zero cravings. This is something that truly needs to be more broadly used in addiction treatment.

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

I absolutely appreciate how Dr. Ramani states our bodies hold memories too.

Dr Ramani, this is very helpful. I've ascribed my consistent failure to "get things done" as a character flaw, e.g. I'm lazy, disorganized, a procrastinator, etc. The idea that the consequences of C-PTSD include "disruptions in attention and concentration" is staggering to me. This revelation is like a bombshell. Thank you so much!

One thing worth mentioning is a person can have both ADHD and CPTSD .