Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (C-PTSD) are mental health conditions that have some similarities. However, they also have many differences, including the frequency and ...

We’ll touch on the history of the C-PTSD diagnosis, how complex trauma can affect a person’s quality of life, and what recovery from the condition can look like. We’ll also directly address ...

Complexposttraumatic stress disorder (c-PTSD or CPTSD) is a mental health condition that can happen after repeated or prolonged trauma. If you have CPTSD, you might have trouble feeling safe.

In the prior essay in this series, we defined what C-PTSD is and what it can feel like. In this article, part two of the series, I explain how and why C-PTSD develops and what it may take to heal ...

Complex PTSD, or C-PTSD, refers to different things for different people. Among clinicians, C-PTSD is often used as a polite way to refer to someone with both Axis I and Axis II disorders—that ...

While PTSD and a related condition known as complex PTSD (C-PTSD) are commonly associated with seeing time in combat, it can ...

Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) are two distinct mental health conditions that can share overlapping symptoms. Both C-PTSD and BPD may ...

Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin finally feels “like myself again” after recovering from a ski racing crash last season and lingering post-traumatic stress disorder ...

Sometimes, PTSD doesn't develop until years later. Childbirth can be a source of trauma. Maybe you had a particularly difficult or painful delivery, you needed an emergency C-section, or you or ...

Deborah Courtney, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., M.A. Deborah Courtney ... Our editors also may be in touch with follow-up questions. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that ...

The more severe the person’s PTSD symptoms were, the more activity appeared in the P.C.C. What is striking about this finding is that the P.C.C. is not known as a memory region, but one that is ...