CPTSD/Disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified

I’m going to make sure the mental health system changes so what happened to me doesn’t happen to anyone else.

If you want to survive without getting arrested I have some tips:

1. When they trigger you externally, because they know what PTSD and CPTSD does, do not react! Set up a blog and explain your story. That’s all you have to do. Follow Ernest Hemingway’s advice who went through significant trauma, forget his misogynistic behaviours towards women – CPTSD wasn’t in the ICD or DSM at the time. He wouldn’t have had a clue what it was. He was externally triggered by women because of emotional abuse from his mother since birth. So forget that side, he channelled his energy in hunting, sports, and kept running to the doctors with multiple complaints of physical ailments because of his CPTSD. This is why I have to be single.
2. If the mental health teams aren’t listening, ask the GP for sertraline. Because I think there’s a possibility I have bipolar type 1 on top of my CPTSD I can’t take my sertraline just incase. To see if this “manic state” passes. Because sertraline can intensify mania. Until the right diagnosis is put on paper for me to work with so I have to be innovative in my recovery.
3. Do not react with violence. Words have more powerful impact. Write what hurts.
4. Buy the dialectical behaviour therapy skills workbook for CPTSD, creative writing, colouring books, anything to try and bring yourself to the present moment. I do that with blogging but everyone’s different.
5. Keep a diary of your symptoms – you might need them if you need to advocate for yourself for a solicitor if suffered from a personal injury because of institutional emotional abuse.
6. Poetry, expressive thought, put your most painful thoughts and feelings into poetry.
7. Follow me in my journey. If I make it out. That’s if. Not guaranteed because I’ve read Hemingway and suffered significant trauma in my life, don’t get yourself arrested because of discrimination of mental illness and cover ups of labels. They will label women with PTSD as BPD during a crisis. And if you have PTSD and CPTSD at the same time this can be challenging. I think that’s what Hemingway had. Without a doubt.
8. https://youtube.com/shorts/lAchfXKTK1w?si=0D1Eh_-spEO_DysQ