Has anyone ever been diagnosed with complex PTSD?

@Venturist PTSD is a single trauma event and is often happening to adults while CPTSD is several long term traumas starting in early childhood and often in a child's home.

They also differ in symptoms. CPTSD merge in with one's identity since the traumas usually shapes you from you're very small up til you're adult. With CPTSD often comes fragmented parts and they can develop into seperate personalities.(OSDD/DID) the dissociation and amnesia can be really severe with CPTSD and so also the hallucinations and psychosis symptoms.

It's easier to treat PTSD than CPTSD that often takes a life long treatment. Aka: The patient never really recovers.

@Queendragonfly I don’t have hallucinations or psychosis but can be easily really disregulated with my emotions in which I am working on better regulating. I can go from one extreme to the next when I super stressed and anxious from triggers

@JaneCas It's of course not written in stone to have hallucinations but I hear it a lot from people with CPTSD and I myself have experienced it too (completely sober) when I was extremely triggered and in high alert mode. It's better now. But when I meditate I see weird shit things. Not my traumas but just situations where I'm gonna get killed. Terrifying.

I know what you mean with regulating. I started out as a walking bomb. Now it's much better. It's the thing we can improve from chaos to balance.

@Queendragonfly ahh I see, yes me too lol just 5 minutes ago I popped off and screamed unintentionally from a stressor trigger. Anywho I wish you the very best in your continued healing journey too. We got this! We are resilient! I am going actually start reading a book now about Cptsd.

@JaneCas Is it "From surviving to thriving " or "The body keeps the score" ?

I have read the latter. Many who's very unstable in their healing journey cuss that book. But I think it was very validating. And helping.