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17 'Habits' of People With Anxiety From Complex Trauma [yahoo.com]

 

By Monique Vitche, The Mighty, October 20, 2019

If you’ve never heard the term “complex trauma” before, you’re not alone. Complex trauma essentially refers to exposure to trauma over long periods of time, often during childhood. In some cases, complex trauma leads to mental health struggles like anxiety, depression and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).

Anxiety due to complex trauma is often difficult to shake. This is something Mighty contributor Vicki Peterson wrote about in her piece, “We Can’t Keep Treating Anxiety From Complex Trauma the Same Way We Treat Generalized Anxiety“:

For someone dealing with complex trauma, the anxiety they feel does not come from some mysterious unknown source or obsessing about what could happen… For those who have experienced trauma, anxiety comes from an automatic physiological response to what has actually, already happened. The brain and body have already lived through “worst case scenario” situations, know what it feels like and are hell-bent on never going back there again.

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If you’ve been told you have Borderline PD  (I haven’t been but am aware C-PTSD and Borderline have the same symptoms) you really might have complex post-traumatic stress. Yes the anxiety and panic is horrific. Mine has attacked me for decades out of nowhere.   It is not fun at all.  We have a massively overactive Limbic HPA axis.  We go into Flight -Fright at the drop of the hat and there isn’t much that can treat this.   One thing that can help is Neurofeedback but we (patients) have to fight for it because no one else will and for most of you, it just won’t be available so ask for it.   Ask/demand (well not to the point that you are annoying) but be persistent. Be persistent just like you take the ACE study results to you doctor and maybe look at the graphs here for A strategies (graphs are on the right bottom).... 

https://www.patcrittenden.com/...scent_attachment.htm


A4 then A6 - when you get out of that place where you have to suppress your anxiety to survive.... it comes out all the time. 

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