If standard PTSD doesn’t quite capture your experience — if the pain feels more pervasive, more personal, more woven into who you are — Complex PTSD might be a more fitting lens. Here’s what it is and how healing is possible.
PTSD is often misunderstood as something that only happens to soldiers or survivors of extreme events. The reality is much broader — and so is the possibility for healing.
After a car accident, most attention goes to the visible injuries — the whiplash, the bruising, the physiotherapy appointments. But
Post-traumatic stress disorder is something most people have heard of, but fewer people understand what it is actually like to