im honestly curious what would lead you to the idea of CPTSD being being a 'lite' version because its very much not, and very much the opposite! CPTSD is... complex for a reason. of course- i know its your anxieties talking to you that its like that. but CPTSD honestly can be much more debilitating than the average single event PTSD symptoms because of it being a complicated result of how you processed trauma. i want to reassure you, CPTSD is no less valid (it is quite misunderstood and less talked of though), its anything but! this is coming from me, person with long term various traumas over the years, cptsd diagnosis, dissociative disorders and other mental illness galore! id suggest reading this resource, as its a good source on trauma (and dissociation, if that applies) and really breaks down the difference, and the depth of CPTSD, i think its gives a better idea of how CPTSD isnt at all a more simple form of PTSD. literally from one of the pages "Complex PTSD is harder to treat/recover from than 'simple' PTSD". stay safe my dude, you deserve to get help and heal <3
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Thank you so much. I'll continue to read up on it! Reading into it, I know of course that it's not "PTSD Lite", but that's the first thing that came to mind as I was reading the first resource and realizing all of it (not most, all of it) was describing me, because like,,, I can't genuinely have a condition, can I? Me, a little bitch that always had it coming? So that's where that mindset came from, and I know it's wrong for literally every other situation but mine, which SHOULD mean it's incorrect for my situation too, but... circular reasoning.
Thank you again, and you deserve healing and happiness as well!
Thank you again, and you deserve healing and happiness as well!
Apparently believing that you brought your trauma on yourself is fairly common with CPTSD as well. The more I read, the more I'm connecting with it, but the implication that I'm not truly as bad a person as I think I am is... scary. And hella sus.