We are proud to support PTSD Awareness Day 2023.
PTSD UK is UK’s only charity dedicated to raising awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can have a significant impact on your daily life – mentally, emotionally and physically.
A diagnosis of Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) includes the same symptoms of PTSD, but also has 3 additional categories of symptoms: difficulties with emotional regulation, an impaired sense of self-worth, and interpersonal problems such as:
– constant issues with keeping a relationship,
– finding it difficult to feel connected to other people,
– constant belief that you are worthless with deep feelings of shame and guilt
– constant and severe emotional dysregulation (you find it difficult to control your emotions).
PTSD and C-PTSD symptoms can vary in intensity over time and can include these and many physical symptoms too. Some people learn to ‘manage’ their symptoms and so have long periods when their symptoms are less noticeable, followed by periods where they get worse. Other people have constant severe symptoms, or you may only have symptoms when you’re stressed in general, or when you run into reminders of what you went through.
Find out more about the symptoms and the treatments available on the website: ptsduk.org/what-is-ptsd/symptoms-of-ptsd/
and more about Complex PTSD here: https://www.ptsduk.org/what-is-ptsd/complex-ptsd/
