![]() ![]() These symptoms cause significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning. In addition, Complex PTSD is characterised by severe and persistent 1) problems in affect regulation 2) beliefs about oneself as diminished, defeated or worthless, accompanied by feelings of shame, guilt or failure related to the traumatic event and 3) difficulties in sustaining relationships and in feeling close to others. torture, slavery, genocide campaigns, prolonged domestic violence, repeated childhood sexual or physical abuse).Īll diagnostic requirements for PTSD are met. Here at Out of the Storm we use the WHO ICD-11 definition of Complex PTSD which reads as follows:Ĭomplex post traumatic stress disorder (Complex PTSD) is a disorder that may develop following exposure to an event or series of events of an extremely threatening or horrific nature, most commonly prolonged or repetitive events from which escape is difficult or impossible (e.g. ![]()
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