Victory?

[kaberett]

Psychiatrist, PTSD. Psych says that c-/PTSD is a likely to be a useful framework if I consider it useful; that I definitely have a post-traumatic-stress-ish something; that he wouldn't necessarily consider it "full-blown formal" PTSD (I think I presented as too high-functioning and covered up how much I was forgetting/understating too well, augh) but nonetheless seems to think c-PTSD might be a useful diagnosis. So. A bit edgy about having underplayed it, but also this is now a thing I get to stop feeling quite so defensive about claiming, maybe?

Comments

[davidgillon]

Hurrah?

Slight Headdesk for understating, understating to medics should only be done when accompanied by pro-active application of a lump of 2-by-4 to their temporal regions to sharpen up their thinking, but he got there anyway, so all's well etc.

[highlyeccentric]

Bonus points!

[littlebutfierce]

<3333

[vass]

Good job. ♥

[kaberett]

... psych recommended this book. I am looking at it and going "... er, nope." I am also kind of nopey about Living With Fear.

[merrythebard]

*fellow PTSD-sufferer hi-five*

I relate very much to both the understating, and the relief when there's some external verification so that one can stop being defensive about claiming to have something that one blatantly has.

(I've been diagnosed straightforwardly as having PTSD. I kind of self-identify more as having c-PTSD, but the distinction doesn't seem to matter all that much in terms of finding useful things, so it's not been a problem!)

[silveradept]

Excellent work.

[azurelunatic]

Sounds useful! Yay surviving. Yay tools.

[withagreatlove]

A partial congratulations then? Maybe you can always 'up' the stakes in future sessions in order to communicate the severity of your condition. Wishing you only good!!