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Complex PTSD.
chelseapaget
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Hi! Im just wanting to get some advise on complex PTSD. My partner was diagnosed with PTSD in 2013 due to something that happened to him when he was just a child. Ive been doing some research and I actually believe he has been mis-diagnosed. My reason for this is because he suffers with all the symptoms of cPTSD and the cause of his PTSD was from a young age and from someone very close to him. He was seeing a therapist off his own back who wanted to try the EMDR once she had listened to what had actually happened to him. Surely his doctor should've picked up on his symptons etc, and stated that he needed this treatment and not just his therapist? I hate seeing him when hes having one of his episodes, and they are lasting even longer than before which have now resulted in him losing his job. I dont really know what im looking for in here but, some advice or help with what to do next would be amazing!
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I hope you don't mind, but I have found the PTSD UK website who may be able to offer you and your partner some support, information and advice, if you want to have a look https://www.ptsduk.org/
Meantime, if we can be of any further help/support to you then please just ask and please keep in touch also and let us know how you are both getting on. We are here to support you on the Community so please chat to us anytime. All the best.
Everyone is entitled to a second opinion if they believe the diagnosis is wrong, this could be something to consider.
Here is a guide for supporting someone with PTSD which you might find useful.
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However, even then, counselling is a vast industry with an incentive to persuade as many as possible that The Thing That Happened was absolutely terrible, and needs a lot of talking about. The book Cold Comfort Farm had a character called Aunt Ada, who took to her bed and ruled her family from there for years, on the grounds that she once 'saw something nasty in the woodshed '.
Horrible things do happen, and always will, and the more horrible they are, the less likely some counsellor will chance to have the faintest comprehension. Concentration camp or first war slaughter trench survivors or kids raped for years in institutions seldom told, because only their fellows would believe, and they certainly wouldn't want to reminisce.