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What is complex PTSD?
Complex PTSD is a when you have some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and some additional ones too.
Complex PTSD is sometimes known as c-PTSD, or CPTSD.
If you have complex PTSD, you will have extra symptoms such as:
- severe issues controlling your emotions,
- an ongoing belief that you are worthless, with deep feelings of shame, guilt or failure that can be related to the trauma, and
- ongoing issues keeping relationships and feeling close to others.
You are more likely to develop complex PTSD if your trauma is, or has been:
- an ongoing event, or
- a series of different traumatic events.
The trauma might be very threatening or frightening.
Often, it is a trauma which you were not able to escape from, such as:
- torture,
- slavery,
- domestic abuse, or
- sexual or physical abuse as a child or adult.
