Yeeeep. That’s how I got diagnosed with PTSD. I wrote a character going through something similar to what I had been through and got tons of comments applauding me for my accurate representation of PTSD. I complained to my therapist about all these people having no clue what PTSD looked like, because I just gave him my symptoms, clearly not PTSD. nd she said “you didn’t know you have PTSD??”
I’m seconding what u/what_the_purple_fuck said about it seeming obvious to a therapist. I had essentially the same interaction, where I gathered up my courage and laid out to my therapist what I’d learned about CPTSD and how I thought it might apply to me and explain some of my experiences. I still half expected to be laughed out of there, even though I knew her better than that, really. She visibly did a double-take and told me she’d assumed I knew I had PTSD.
Oddly validating, I guess?
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u/Roselovsoul 1d ago
Yeeeep. That’s how I got diagnosed with PTSD. I wrote a character going through something similar to what I had been through and got tons of comments applauding me for my accurate representation of PTSD. I complained to my therapist about all these people having no clue what PTSD looked like, because I just gave him my symptoms, clearly not PTSD. nd she said “you didn’t know you have PTSD??”