{"id":150061,"date":"2022-08-25T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=150061"},"modified":"2022-08-25T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:31:33","slug":"12-signs-you-might-be-suffering-from-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150061","title":{"rendered":"12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qOibW5LXt3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>      <br><p> PTSD stands for post-traumatic stress  disorder a condition officially  recognized in 1980 to describe exposure  to a relatively brief but devastating  event typically a war a rape an accident  or a terrorist incident  complex PTSD recognized in 1994  describes exposure to something equally  devastating but over a very long time  normally the first 15 years of life  emotional neglect humiliation bullying  disrupted attachment violence and anger  a lot of us as many as 20 percent are  wandering the world as undiagnosed  sufferers of complex PTSD we know that  all isn&#39;t well but we don&#39;t have a term  to capture the problem we don&#39;t connect  up our ailments and we have no clue who  to seek out or what sort of treatment  might help so here are 12 leading  symptoms of complex PTSD we might think  about which ones if any apply to us and  more than seven might be a warning sign  worth listening to  firstly a feeling that nothing is safe  wherever we are we have an apprehension  that something awful is about to happen  we are in a state of hyper vigilance the  catastrophe we expect often involves a  sudden fall from grace we will behold  away from current circumstances and  humiliated perhaps put in prison and  denied all access to anything kind or  positive we won&#39;t necessarily be killed  but to all intents our life will be over  people may try to reassure us through  logic that reality won&#39;t ever be that  bad but logic doesn&#39;t help we&#39;re in the  grip of an illness we aren&#39;t just a bit  confused  secondly we can never relax this shows  up in our body we&#39;re permanently tense  or rigid we have trouble with being  touched perhaps in particular areas of  the body the idea of doing yoga or  meditation or breathing exercises these  things aren&#39;t just not appealing they  may be positively revolting we may call  them hippie with a snare and deeper down  they are of course terrifying probably  our bowels are troubled too our anxiety  has a direct link to our digestive  system  thirdly we can&#39;t ever really sleep and  we wake up very early generally in a  state of high alarm as though during  rest we&#39;ve let down our guard and are  now in even greater danger than usual  fourthly we have deepened ourselves an  appalling self-image we hate who we are  we think we&#39;re ugly monstrous repulsive  we think we&#39;re awful possibly the most  awful person in the world our sexuality  is especially perturbed we feel  predatory sickening shameful  fifthly we&#39;re often drawn to highly  unavailable people we tell ourselves we  hate needy people but what we really  hate are people who might be too  available for us we make a beeline for  people who are disengaged won&#39;t want  warmth from us and who might be  struggling with their own undiagnosed  issues around avoidance  sixthly we are sickened by people who  want to be cozy with us we call these  people puppy  revolting or desperate  seventh we are prone to losing our  temper very badly sometimes with other  people more often just with ourselves we  aren&#39;t so much angry as very very  worried worried that everything is about  to become very awful again we are  shouting because we&#39;re terrified we look  mean we are in fact defenseless  eighth we are highly paranoid it&#39;s not  that we expect other people will poison  us or follow us down the street we just  suspect that other people will be  hostile to us and will be looking out  for opportunities to crush and humiliate  us we can be mesmerically drawn to  examples of this happening on social  media the unkindest and most arbitrary  environment which anyone with complex  PTSD easily confuses with the whole  world chiefly because it operates like  their world randomly and very meanly  ninth we find other people so dangerous  and worrying that being alone has huge  attractions we might like to go and live  under a rock forever in some moods we  associate Bliss with not having to see  anyone again how  a tenth we don&#39;t register to ourselves  as suicidal but the truth is that we  find living so exhausting and often so  unpleasant we do sometimes long not to  have to exist anymore  11.<\/p><br><p><img src='https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/313690\/pexels-photo-313690.jpeg?auto=compress&#038;cs=tinysrgb&#038;h=650&#038;w=940'><\/p><p>We can&#39;t afford to show much  spontaneity we&#39;re rigid about our  routines everything may need to be  exactly so as an attempt to ward off  looming chaos we may clean a lot sudden  changes of plan can feel  indistinguishable from the ultimate  downfall we dread  12. in a bid to try to find safety we  may throw ourselves into work amassing  money Fame honor Prestige but of course  this never works the sense of danger and  self-disgust is coming from so deep  within we can never reach a sense of  safety externally a million people can  be cheering but one jeer will be enough  once again to evoke the self-disgust we  have left unaddressed inside  breaks from work can feel especially  worrying retirement and holidays create  unique difficulties  those are the symptoms so what is the  cure for all these arduous symptoms of  complex PTSD  partly we need to courageously realize  that we have come through something  terrible that we haven&#39;t until now  properly digested because we haven&#39;t had  a kind stable environment in which to do  so  we are a little wonky because long ago  the situation was genuinely awful when  we were small someone made us feel  extremely unsafe even though they might  have been our parent we were made to  think that nothing about who we were was  acceptable  in the name of being brave we had to  endure some very difficult separations  perhaps repeated over years no one  reassured us of our worth we were judged  with intolerable harshness  the damage may have been very obvious  but more typically it might have  unfolded in objectively innocent  circumstances a casual visitor might  never have noticed there might have been  a narrative which lingers still that we  were part of a happy family  one of the great discoveries of  researchers in complex PTSD is that  emotional neglect with an outwardly High  achieving families can be as damaging as  active violence in obviously deprived  ones  if any of this Rings Bells we should  stop being brave we should allow  ourselves to feel compassion for who we  were that might not be easy given how  hard we tend to be with ourselves the  next step is to try to identify a  therapist or counselor trained in how to  handle complex PTSD that may well be  someone trained specifically in dealing  with trauma which involves directing  enormous amounts of compassion towards  one&#39;s younger self in order to have the  courage to face the trauma and recognize  its impact on one&#39;s life  rather touchingly and simply the root  cause of complex PTSD is an absence of  love  and the cure for it follows the same  path we need to relearn to love someone  we very unfairly hate beyond measure  ourselves  the School of Life offers online  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The best thing is that you can build unlimited \u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTSD stands for post-traumatic stress disorder a condition officially recognized in 1980 to describe exposure to a relatively brief but devastating event typically a war a rape an accident or a terrorist incident complex PTSD recognized in 1994 describes exposure to something equally devastating but over a very long time normally the first 15 years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12 signs you might be suffering from PTSD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,4771,111,7,3438,365,988],"tags":[37086,37089,59766,59771,59769,59770,56573,6093,34222,59767,59768,37088,1084,957,37090,4606,52252,702,960,337,37085,37087,36138,37084,965,34070,34165],"class_list":["post-150061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-causes-and-prevention","category-disasters-accidents","category-diy","category-getting-help","category-ice-skating","category-music","category-news","tag-alain-de-botton","tag-big-questions","tag-complex-ptsd","tag-complex-ptsd-narcissistic-abuse","tag-complex-ptsd-symptoms","tag-complex-ptsd-ted-talk","tag-education","tag-hack","tag-how","tag-identifying-mental-disorders","tag-identifying-mental-health-symptoms","tag-improvement","tag-love","tag-mental-health","tag-mindfullness","tag-philosophy","tag-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-2","tag-psychology","tag-ptsd","tag-relationships","tag-schooloflife","tag-self","tag-talk","tag-the-school-of-life","tag-therapy","tag-to","tag-wellness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/htmlF_IMG_6306c367b0ee4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}