C-PTSD
Looking back when I worked the trucks, I never thought it would happen to me…
THE BASICS
- Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD, cPTSD, or hyphenated C-PTSD) is a stress-related mental disorder generally occurring in response to complex traumas (i.e., commonly prolonged or repetitive exposure to a traumatic event (or traumatic events), from which one sees little or no chance to escape).
SYMPTOMS
- Anxiety
- Attention difficulties
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emotional dysregulation
- Emotional over-stress
- Hyperarousal
- Hypervigilance
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Intrusive thoughts
- Negative self-beliefs
- Failure for wrong reasons
- Guilt
- Shame
- Prolonged feelings of terror
- Somatization