Complex PTSD - It is an injury, not an illness!

 

Complex PTSD - It is an injury, not an illness!

Long term exposure to repeated emotional and mental abuse can result in Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Sometimes, the term "psychosis" is applied to mental illness, and the term "neurosis" to psychiatric injury. The main difference is that a psychotic person is unaware they have a mental problem, whereas the neurotic person is aware - often acutely.

Made Crazy or Suffering Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

In reality, the common description of emotional abuse as "crazy making" is actually quite appropriate. Long term exposure to repeated emotional and mental abuse can result in Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is, as the name suggests, a more complex form of PTSD.
Both disorders are experienced as a result of a psychiatric injury (in layman's terms a type of brain damage), but where PTSD is usually the result of one major psychiatric injury, and can usually be recovered from in a relatively short period of time with the right support,Complex PTSD, is the result of many psychiatric injuries, both minor and major, that are inflicted over a long period of time. The symptoms are also more complex, and so is the treatment, so the name is really quite suitable.
The sad thing about Complex PTSD is that recovery can take on average, 5 years, and can only begin once the victim is removed from the situation that caused it, and given the right support and treatment.
On the bright side, PTSD and Complex PTSD are psychiatric injuries and they can be recovered from. The symptoms, such as anxiety and depression, are not internal chemical imbalances, but reactive or situational disorders, and so people suffering from either disorder can make a FULL recovery in time. This is in contrast to other mental illnesses such as Personality Disorders and Bi-Polar Disorder, which are the result of internal chemical imbalances, and although treatable, will never actually go away.

http://safe-at-last.hubpages.com/hub/Signs-of-Domestic-Violence-Emotional-Abuse

Study Finds PTSD Gene Link

Week of April 16, 2012

Stars and Stripes reports that a recent study has identified the genes that are linked to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). "The existence of a study population with clear genetic links, common family histories, and exposure to a single trauma allowed researchers an unusual opportunity to distill information about genes' role in PTSD," said UCLA psychiatrist Armen K. Goenjian, who led the study. An abstract of the study is available in the April 5, 2012 online edition of the Journal of Affective Disorders.
For more facts on PTSD from Military.com's Ms. Vicki, visit the Military.com Spouse and Family Center.


http://www.military.com/veterans-report/study-finds-ptsd-gene-link?ESRC=vr.nl

Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

So many people dont understand P.T.S.D..  Less than a year ago one of those people was me. on a side note on a whim I asked a question that stopped him cold in his tracks he stared at me he said, ma'am, I believe you have P.T.S.D..  Less than a year ago has been an eternity for me.  I was only asked one question - by half dozen of them at least, "ma'am, please tell us why you left the military".  I looked down low at my feet in shame - I told each one of them exactly the same honest and truthful answer and when I finally told them I was crazy, each time I made them cry.  Their tears for me were genuine in disbelief I shook my head, "Dont you see what I have done? I flipped my own universe upside down!"  I had tried so hard  to go back to being me, I did not know thats impossible with P.T.S.D.. I blamed myself I was so ashamed - sad and lonely I became. Not my fault they kept telling me I shook my head no way I would accept the weakness, anxiety, and depression in me is caused from an illness called P.T.S.D.  The joy in my heart I cannot feel I can only remember it was once very real.  I must learn to function without that limb using artificial tools I feel like such a fool like everyone is making fun of me and I think they are laughing but nobody laughs at P.T.S.D..  I have my days as we all do but today I am writing to share with you that as sure as this pain, happiness can also be real.  Take small steps its a very long way so many promises to someday take away the pain in my heart and replace it with purpose my feelings no longer forged or faked.  The only way I know to love the ones that are close to me is to protect them by making them tougher than me because one day they could struggle with this same reality that is an illness called P.T.S.D.

PTSD

In everything I have been taught today I learned a little more about what it means.  Not only CAN it happen to me.... it WILL.  It did.  It will happen to you and I cannot stop it but because I have become a part of it and I can never ever erase it because it put its fist straight through my heart and took so much of my soul.  Not one of us who suffer can describe the reality because it is invisible.  This modern world exists because of war we cannot see and we walk blindfolded through land mines on our own battlefield praying that we make it, then begging God to let us die when we get a glimpse into that side.  Why me? Why not.  I am not the only one.  A curse or a gift I cannot decide why I have the ability to see them and they are everywhere.  I cannot hide but I hate them and they attach themselves to all of us, even me.  I cannot see you I can only see them and I cannot understand why you do not recognize them.  I am not understood by you and so I keep myself closed tight because they surely hate me and so you will also because you obey them.   I want to love you because God commands me to, but I hate what they will make us do to each other to our own hearts why cant I just close me eyes and enjoy this ride that is my life like a limb from my body joy was taken from me and thats my definition of PTSD.