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I'm afraid in my case since I used to function pretty well outside burnout and since I'm not present myself as a derelict most therapists want to look for the least amount of diagnosis and intervention and hope I can get better with some cognitive behavioural therapy.
A cPTSD diagnosis can be pretty stigmatising in my country, people will automatically think "oh, the parents used to rape this person, ok" and it can be not always as helpful as it can make other people scared of you...
Comment by theconstellinguist at 30/01/2024 at 20:02 UTC
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That's not what I think of when I hear cPTSD. I think of abusive parents and then beyond that I don't have any further information about the nature of the abuse. I don't think of sexual abuse necessarily or automatically.
There are other signs I know to look for for sexual abuse. cPTSD is one of them, but it's really any long term childhood abuse so it's not the distinguishing feature. The sexual abuse features would be captured in other disorders/symptoms.
Again, I would just ask them to use the the Trauma symptoms Investigation Form in Autistic Spectrum Disorders if you think it would help in getting medication, support you needed, or to be on disability.
If you don't think the diagnosis-happy community has anything to offer you in return, including a sense of stability of where you are and what happened to you, yeah, avoid it.
But I got diagnosed when not being diagnosed wasn't working and I was just getting gaslit and minimized about what would heal my trauma and things were clearly still very much escalating for me due to the gross incompetence of minimization of the trauma there which evading diagnosis and listening to gaslighters had caused. Only then did I get more access to larger systems of support I needed, that did in fact at least slightly mitigate a lot of the issues.