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What is C-PTSD?

Trauma Rewired

CHAPTER

Understanding Complex Trauma and Its Impact

This chapter explores the concept of complex trauma, discussing its effects on the nervous system, behaviors, and responses. It emphasizes the shift towards empowering language, advocating for the term complex post-traumatic stress (CPTS) over 'disordered'. The chapter delves into the neurological impacts of trauma, habitual coping mechanisms, and the development of 'new normals' stemming from developmental trauma like enmeshment trauma and parentification.

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