Difference between PDs and CPTSD

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posted by Kizzie!

I have witnessed many clients with CPTSD misdiagnosed with various anxiety and depressive disorders.  Moreover, many are also unfairly and inaccurately labeled with bipolar, narcissistic, codependent, autism spectrum and borderlines disorders ....

Most of the diagnoses mentioned above are typically treated as innate characterological defects rather than as learned maladaptations to stress -- adaptations that survivors were forced to learn as traumatized children.  And, most importantly, because these adaptions were learned, they can often be extinguished or significantly diminished and replaced with more functional adaptations to stress (p. 9, CPTSD, From Surviving to Thriving, 2013).

I was diagnosed at 27 with Bi-Polar disorder... I am going to talk to My Psych. about the possibility that I have CPTSD.