07/27/2023
Small and short visual representation of PTSD vs C-PTSD.
"Both PTSD and C-PTSD are caused by experiencing traumatic events. The defining characteristic of a traumatic event is its capacity to cause fear, helplessness, or horror as a response to the threat of injury or death, and therefore can affect anyone.
PTSD usually results from a single-incident trauma for example, a traumatic childbirth, a burglary, an assault, a fire.
C-PTSD, on the other hand, often develops over sustained, repeated or multiple forms of traumatic events such as victims of bullying, emergency service workers, ‘chronic sexual, psychological, and physical abuse or neglect, or chronic intimate partner violence, victims of kidnapping and hostage situations, victims of slavery and human trafficking, prisoners of war, and prisoners kept in solitary confinement for a long period of time.’"
PTSD and C-PTSD: The similarities and the differences. PTSD UK |. (n.d.). https://www.ptsduk.org/ptsd-and-c-ptsd-the-similarities-and-the-differences/
