Written by: Lauryn Evans Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) is a disorder that can manifest in individuals that experienced trauma in their childhoods, faced adverse childhood experiences, or endured recurring trauma (Mulloy, 2019). C-PTSD is not recognized in the DSM-5 as a mental disorder. However, it was recognized for the first time in 2018 in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) by the World Health Organization (WHO) (Franco, 2021). C-PTSD is a disorder in which the individual struggles with the same symptoms of PTSD, along with another three symptoms as defined by the ICD-11: affect dysregulation, difficulties forming and maintaining healthy and fulfilling relationships, and altered beliefs of self…
Everyone has a shadow, maybe two or even 10. However, many of us are not aware of our shadow. A shadow is described as being a part of ourselves that we have deemed unacceptable and only gets to exist in the darkness.
