Posted by hyperfocus on December 30, 2012, at 13:49:25
In reply to Melancholia is my existence, my life. Please read., posted by alabamaauthor on December 21, 2012, at 19:57:49
Complex PTSD has many ramifications; treatment-resistant depression is just one of them. Dissociation -- a fragmenting of your consciousness -- is the hallmark of Complex PTSD and while its surface symptoms satisfy every criteria for major depression and extreme anxiety and obssessive thinking and paranoia and several other psychiatric conditions, it's actually a completely separate disorder that requires unique targeted treatment. Somatization of psychic distress is universal and can manifest as chronic fatigue or any number of puzzling treatment-resistant physical conditions. Meds can play a large role but treating CPTSD, if that is what you have, primarily requires you to re-establish in your mind a sense of safety, stability, control, and relearn many things about your self that abuse and trauma have erased. The psychological consequences of abuse and trauma create in the victim a sense of helplessness and unworthiness that can pervade a person's life, from your inability to control your own thoughts and memories, to regulate your own emotions, maintain executive control of your attention, focus, physical and emotional energy, to handle disappointments and challenges, manage conflict maintain relationships, to set goals. It also unfortunately makes you more vulnerable to revictimization which can form a self-fulfilling cycle of abuse and dysfunction. Like I said all these things might be attributed to major depression and anxiety et.al but obviously it goes much deeper that.
C-PTSD: social phobia, major depression, dissociation.
Asperger's Syndrome.
Currently: 50mg amitriptyline single dose at night. 75mg Lyrica occasionally.
Significantly improving.
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