Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "CPTSD vs PTSD - How are they Different?" video.

  1. That's why they created a cptsd diagnosis.
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  2. Generally speaking, repressed memories aren't a real thing. The brain doesn't really work like that. Most likely, you were either traumatized at an early age when you were developmentally deciding whether the world is by and large safe and secure or dangerous and insecure. Any memories from that age tend to be extremely fragile no matter how a person's experience was. The other possible scenario is that those particular memories were misfiled in some fashion. That also happens where somebody has a traumatic event and for some reason represses the emotional component of the event by downplaying it's significance. But, speaking as an educator, once a memory is formed, it's there, when you think you've learned something and it's not there when you need it, you're either stressed and not accessing all of your brain, it wasn't transferred into long term memory or it wasn't stored where you thought it was stored. I suppose, it also could have been a series of relatively minor events that you haven't connected together. That's one of the big differences, PTSD really needs a specific event to kick it off diagnostically. EDIT: there are also some medications that mess with memory preventing memory formation. These are usually used in surgery, but there's a few out there that have other uses that may have some negative impact on memory formation.
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  3. To be honest TBI can result in a huge number of different presentations depending upon what precisely got damaged. IMHO, it's medical malpractice to see somebody for mental health problems without screening for brain injuries in most cases. I've had a lot of brain injuries over the years, lack of oxygen, multiple concussions, stroke, water intoxication and whatever the results were of those seizures I used to have were. Each time is different, depending upon what was affected, but you're absolutely right, anger and emotional instability definitely can result from a brain injury, although you'd be more likely to need to compare TBI against PTSD as they do crop up at the same time.
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  4. Yes absolutely. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy would likely address that, so would meditation. There should be a lot of therapists out there that can help with that.
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  5. Gaslighting is more likely to cause cPTSD than PTSD. If I understand correctly, gaslighting alone wouldn't qualify a person for a PTSD diagnosis as it's currently defined. But, really, the difference is probably less important than it seems as long as the symptoms are being treated appropriately and it may have to be coded as PTSD in order to get insurance coverage.
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  6. I hope you did, modern treatment options have improved a great deal. Between medication and modern therapeutic techniques, there's a good chance that you'd see improvement.
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