Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Self-Trust

Do you trust yourself? Your judgment and your decisions?

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People living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) often struggle with self-trust. This is because they learned in childhood that they cannot trust themselves and still hear the voices in their minds of their abusers.

This article will discover how complex trauma affects your self-trust.

What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Unlike post-traumatic stress disorder, CPTSD is caused by repeated trauma that occurs in childhood. Children are trapped in their situation and unable to escape the abuse and neglect they might be undergoing. This lack of the possibility of rescue from their abusers causes the child to deny and internalize their emotions which becomes a problem in adulthood.

The life-altering symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder are numerous and include the following:

· Reliving the trauma through flashbacks and nightmares

· Avoiding situations that remind them of the trauma they endured as a child

· Dizziness or nausea when remembering the trauma

· Hyperarousal