Understanding C-PTSD Medical Trauma in a Health Obsessed World

C-PTSD is a condition that manifests over a prolonged period of time.

Here is a standard nightmare I’ve had, many times over:

It’s me. I’m standing in a wide open room, filled to the brim with people. Sometimes they’re family members; other times, they’re strangers. It doesn’t matter. In whatever scenario, I’m drowning — or suffocating, or otherwise dying. My vision is starting to black out; my throat is swelling until I can…