Chronic PTSD: The Diagnosis That Doesn't Exist
There's a diagnosis that describes something very real and officially does not exist. Chronic PTSD has never been accepted into the DSM, complex PTSD made it into the ICD-11 but not the DSM, and continuous traumatic stress — trauma where the threat never actually ends — made it into neither. This episode works through why the classic PTSD model, built on the assumption of a discrete past event, struggles with trauma that doesn't stop, and what the research says about emotional abuse, ongoing contact with a harmful person, and whether recovery even has a chance when the door can't be sealed…
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