So while the term Complex PTSD is widely known, what you’re more likely to see on a medical chart is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), PTSD dissociative subtype, or Other Specified Trauma ...

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.

In 1992, psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman wrote a paper coining the term C-PTSD for the first time. In the paper, she proposes that there is evidence that a “complex” form of PTSD exists in ...

In 2019, a psychiatrist diagnosed them with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) — a mental health condition that may sometimes trigger the confusing and often scary symptoms of ...