

Examples of CPTSD's symptoms are prolonged feelings of terror, worthlessness, helplessness, distortions in identity or sense of self, and hypervigilance. feelings of shame, guilt, failure for wrong reasons), and interpersonal difficulties. In the ICD-11 classification, CPTSD is a category of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with three additional clusters of significant symptoms: emotional dysregulations, negative self-beliefs (e.g. commonly prolonged or repetitive exposures to a series of traumatic events, within which individuals perceive few or no chance to escape.


Hyperarousal, emotional over-stress, intrusive thoughts, emotional dysregulations, hypervigilance, negative self-beliefs, interpersonal difficulties, and also often attention difficulties, anxiety, depression, somatisation, dissociation.Ĭomplex post-traumatic stress disorder ( CPTSD) is a stress-related mental disorder generally occurring in response to complex traumas, i.e. Medical condition Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD)ĭisorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified (DESNOS), Enduring Personality Change After Catastrophic Experience (EPCACE)
