A therapist I saw a year ago thought I might have PTSD. I read 'I can't get over it,' but couldn't relate to a lot of the book. I can't relate to a lot of psychological books because I don't have a firm grasp of the concepts of attachment, connectedness, familial love, platontic love, romantic love, trust, loneliness. I'm also asexual, so there are feelings of attraction that I have never had. I have some feelings in spades...like feeling guilt over stupid things sometimes.
Is anyone here emotionally stunted (since childhood)?
I thought I had schizoid personality disorder, but a shrink told me that I didn't have it. It wasn't until I read the wiki on complex-PTSD for children that I thought the therapist might have been on to something.
Children's C-PTSD symptoms off wiki that I was referring to.
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Attachment - Uncertainty about the reliability and predictability of the world, distrust and suspiciousness, social isolation, interpersonal difficulties, difficulty attuning to other people's emotional states and points of view
Biology - hypersensitivity to physical contact, analgesia, somatization, increased medical problems
Affect or emotional regulation - easily-aroused high-intensity emotions, difficulty deescalating, difficulty describing feelings and internal experience, chronic and pervasive depressed mood or sense of emptiness or deadness, chronic suicidal preoccupation, overinhibition or excessive expression of anger
Dissociation - distinct alterations in states of consciousness, amnesia, depersonalization and derealization
Behavioral control - poor modulation of impulses, self-destructive behavior, aggressive behavior, sleep disturbances, eating disorders, substance abuse, oppositional behavior, excessive compliance
Cognition - difficulties in attention regulation and executive functioning, problems focusing on and completing tasks, difficulty planning and anticipating, learning difficulties, problems with language development
Self-concept - lack of a continuous and predictable sense of self, low self-esteem, feelings of shame and guilt, generalized sense of being ineffective in dealing with one's environment, belief that one has been permanently damaged by the trauma
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