Flashbacks can also cause a person to feel themselves shutting down, unable to move or communicate, with the need to curl up and retreat from the world. This was my response, sometimes it would be caused by just a word or a facial expression, leaving me feeling utterly confused with the world. It has taken a few years of difficult work and going deep to figure out why and analyse the cause, however it has been worth the struggle, flashbacks are now few and far between, I am able to deal with in minutes rather than days. The above Course by Richard allowed me to make huge progress, understanding brings a freedom and validation, allowing us to move forward knowing we are not the problem.
I'm finding my way out of my black hole of of despair/safety now. Such a hard climb. But i spent years digging this thing...so it'll take a long time finding my way to sun I guess. Plus one of my emotional triggers is still in the house...
@@sandrad2597 Pleased to hear from you and hope my words have helped. One thing that I hold onto and which helped me to move forward and it is very important you take this on board is that you are not the problem, you were never the problem, remember who you really are and be you. For decades I did not know who or what I was, confusion was everywhere and the depths of despair, the fear, not understanding what was happening was my normal, but you can get beyond that. It is not easy I know only too well how hard it can be but discover who you are again and remember none of this was ever your fault no matter what they say. Stay strong Sandra, I still have some issues with a family member but that is their problem and I will not stoop to their levels anymore. Much love to you Sandra and remember none of this was ever your fault 🙂💖
Absolutely. For me it looks like my mind goes completly blank sometimes, I can't think, I can't speak... although I am still completly conscious of my surroundings. But I wanna vanish in these situations and hide under a rock.
There's a bright side! All these years of being alone has left me realizing that the negative triggers I used to experience are less affecting... One day i'll join the world again! In this life or the next :)
Just learning about this as it is my circumstance from a very young age. As an old man now, I wish I'd seen your content 40+ years ago. Your doing great work sir, I thank you so much and hope you are safe.
Long suspected that I experience CPTSD. The clarification that emotional flashbacks denote CPTSD is really helpful. I’ve never seen them as flashbacks but purely my emotional reactivity. I realise that I’m like a wounded animal and lash out at people that try to get close, not necessarily in an outwardly aggressive way but through a predatory internal voice. I emotionally cut off from people without being conscious of doing it. I find it almost impossible to trust anyone including myself. I try to work on this but it feels like 2 steps forward 1.8 steps back. But I am tenacious and will continue to strive. Thanks Richard
@SoulSpa6835 I broke contact with my mother after 5 years and it was a mistake. She will not admit to anything, in fact she put me right back in the role of having to worry and help them. Even after my MS diagnosis.
Same here, Kimberly. I’m 25, and I’ve felt such an inexplainable anger since I don’t know when. I’ve only just started to have control over it in the last two years, but it’s still hard to cope with it sometimes. It burns me out, it drains me mentally, and I feel defeated most days. But I’m slowly learning how to cope with it in healthy ways. These feelings have to subside one day. I know we can’t take these feelings with us to the afterlife, so hopefully the disperse and we can find peace. I hope you find some peace of mind in your lifetime, Kim. This burden isn’t worth the strength it takes to carry. I’m praying for you
Learning about the memories not having pictures just alleviated a lot of my confusion. Yes I resonate with this 1000% The strong waves of emotion can make it very hard to function effectively.
Yes! This is definitely me and I have been working diligently for years to reduce or eliminate the symptoms. The way people are currently acting in public has triggered me intensely.
This man is a hero. He is so generous to share this information, which he clearly has studied vigorously to gain, to help others. You can tell he knows the material inside and out.
@@AngelKrystalStar Many memories come back to me when i'm half asleep. Either falling asleep, or waking up. (not sure which stage of sleep it's called)
This is me. Cptsd. But I also have PTSD. I am a Veteran. It took a very long time to understand that what I had was PTSD. It took even longer to understand that I actually had both. Very well done!
Look at you going all animated here!! Great move Richard! It's truly a wonderful thing to witness you reaching out to the world and teaching and giving hope where some may have never thought there was hope for them. You rock brotha!!
I may not act like it because I have been secluded for many years and my depression is at its worse and every part of my body hurts. I pray when the pain is the worst for Jesus to just take me where there is no more pain. Maybe He is allowing my suffering for a reason. I don't know. But it does not matter, I praise Him everyday no matter what. Maranatha.
I'm diagnosed with C-ptsd but wasn't convinced because I don't suffer from flashbacks, only panic attacks, even though doctors and psychologists never seemed to believe that it was panic attacks. I recently heard about emotional flashbacks and searched everywhere to find an illustration of an emotional flashback. Maybe my panic attack weren't panic attacks but flashbacks? I looked around to see if anyone else may have been confusing flashbacks for panic attacks. I started reading stories of people figuring out flashbacks in therapy and also say "I always called them panic attacks". Thank you for this illustration of an emotional flashback. I believe it's very important to recognize flashbacks in order to handle and treat them. I believe the approach of treating panic attack or flashback is complete different and I've never felt understood in therapy while trying to explain these experiences.
oh wow....judt wow!! This cartoony video is so essy to understand.... you seem calmer......no swearing and u were respectful n polite....so different from some of your other vids......thank you so much Richard. I defo have CPTSD....never diagnosed....i do believe that many gps dont know enough about this condition To have a proper name for my emotional state n problems is liberating.....meaning im not just sad or a nervous wreck for nothing. My main symptom over 30 years of struggling often alone, has been memory n cognitive problems....almost like dementia. . I now believe this to be caused by CPTSD, which is a huge relief. Thanku so so much for this wonderfully thoughtful video.
you totally described me !!! CPTSD... thank you Richard for helping me understand myself more and more each day and each month. i`m learning a lot from you , i`m finally putting the peaces together... appreciate your hard work that you put for us. knowledge is power ❤🕊🙏
Definitely me! I have found your videos incredibly helpful, and I wanted to say thank you to you for everything that you do. I have been working on my own recovery for almost 3 years, due to a lack of doctors with qualifications necessary to treat c-ptsd in my area. It can sometimes be incredibly overwhelming and confusing, and videos like yours go a long way toward clearing up some of the murkiness.
Ok, really good instructional video - thanks - but i am so happy that the dog in your example is a Rottie!! I had a Rottie, and she was the kindest, bravest, funniest, most noble soul i know. They're such a joy!
All of the above. Worked it out mostly by myself and reading, though I have been through different counseling experiences that were adequate for that moment, to get me through so I could function ... it is ongoing ... I am 65 and life just keeps providing pain and loss to juggle ... make the best of the rest, I say! Get as well as you can! (y) It takes just a bit of courage to get past certain sticking points, to face certain things and voice them, and you, RG, have just provided important words. Decades go by not healing sometimes just for lack of the right words to have certain realizations, unlock a memory, name a feeling or voice a perception. Be encouraged ...
Life is short. I'm 64 n my flirtation with cptsd commenced 60yrs ago. It has totalled my whole life so far - I refuse to give it the rest. Shit happens but around not TO you. Be free now and be magnificent. 🍀🌈☮️
@@sliewood the days dwindle down ... yes ... ;) I say choose whenever possible, rational, courageous to make every *NOW* as enjoyable/meaningful/healing educational as possible ... Sometimes lots and lots of shit happens like Ground Hog Day for great lengths of time, as we are seeing now. Anyway in general, if life is fine great. If something won't do, if it affects your life daily functioning etc then seek out the healing ... Knowing and understanding also helps me see the monsters from miles away finally. That helps ...
Uggh it feels so much easier when you have something concrete to blame! I was bullied in elementary school for over five years, but home was pretty messed up too, and the village I lived in was generally evil in some wicked sense. Many were/are members of one or another local cult. Children beat and bully each other on these grounds and adults keep it going, isolating their children when young and beating them when they misbehave. It's very confusing and deeply malignant. Every time I think I actually manage to pinpoint my trauma some new insight comes along and makes me all disoriented again. The framework you're offering helps tremendously though, putting words on the whole sequence of my life that loaded me with fear. SO THANK YOU
My father was in a very horrible war and came home an alcoholic and a drug addict. He beat me and my family up every single day and locked us in closets for days. Once when he was drunk he loaded his rifle and started shooting at my mother. She was running as fast as she could and the bullets kept missing her because he couldn't aim that good. This went on every single day for 14 years. I have autism and I can remember almost every single day of my life. It's so hard to remembering EVERYTHING!
this video is concise and checks all the boxes. I have had flashbacks (memory of standing at the front door with my brother as my mother , hollering that she was not coming back, got in her car and sped off..leaving us standing there crying.) I also have anxiety attacks with situations that had happened since..where it cannot be explained..and to others, may have no rhyme or reason. Thank you for this. I am sharing it so that maybe those around me can understand why I am the way that I am.
Yep, that explains me completely! Thank you for making this video!!! I've watched several of your videos on emotional flashbacks and just couldn't grasp the idea or meaning...until now! Thank you!! It's scary to see yourself relate to basically everything in the video, but it's a starting point not an end point. ;)
Thanks a lot for that video. I have C-PTSD, know it for almost a year now, but that video really helped me to see the origin, the cause, the creation of a c-ptsd as a third person.
@6:00 to 9:20 ... WOW. THANK YOU! I'm 2 years out of 8 years of pain and confusion, and I still feel broken and unable to function in a world that now feels like a constant trigger for bad feelings WITHOUT specific memories attached. That *IS* me in this video, completely... right down to the guy in the frozen foods section of the grocery store! 🙏 THANK YOU for validating my experience.
Yes here too! That's exactly what my conclusion is for me. It may not always feel like it but finding out will be liberating because it's the first step towards healing. Hang in there my friend. 💙
me too. professionals should not be in this field unless they have issues like us. They have no freakin' clue what they are talking about and rarely make correct assessments because they can't relate.
I too was diagnosed ptsd, major depressive, bpd (they used that to terminate parental rights claiming I was a risk for future harm). My ada advocate who was also a trained therapist etc diagnosed me with cptsd. She looked at my entire history and records. The court hired psychologist that diagnosed me for parental court only saw me 2 times and did not look at my records nor my history and also spoke with an abusive ex spouse about me but never met with current spouse. Psychiatry and incorrect diagnosis can destroy your life.
@@thegnszoo2590 I have CPTSD ... and sat in a psychiatrist's office for 21 years! It was just before the CPTSD/PTSD had even been looked at. I am still healing ... and accept it is on-going now that I am tacking in a better direction. ACOA and CPTSD work have been enhancing for me, taken together.
I tick both boxes. I'm gaining a good understanding, and differentiating between the traumas, and how it masked my autism, every day is a step forward in healing now. I'm happy 💖
This is so me. I have a vague understanding that my childhood was often in unpredictable and scary environments but not very good recall of a lot of it. Now I’m off to find the videos that tell me how to sort this out and stop seemingly self-sabotaging my own life 🙃
The flashback summary is very well done, as I eventually got a visual on it. First I was a little disappointed that it is an animation but after a few minutes it became irrelevant. Thanks Richard
This is an excellent presentation. This is me, through and through. I hate to say it, but I prefer the animated version of you. You bear a very strong resemblance to the person who caused all the trauma. Watching the real you is triggering, in and of itself. Thank you.
Myself snd my partner both suffer from cptsd, we do have some interesting days, but we have each other to discuss things , we didn't realise that we used to play with each other as children, my childhood memories are extremely fragmented, when my mother died recently, i found some photos of us, ones my brother hadn't removed , i find we have helped each other by talking and laughing when we can, some things we choose not to remember, but realising that i didn't make things up and i am not mad is a huge relief. So glad to have found your programme very very helpful. Also tried to get help from a mental health organization local to myself, but my narcissistic brother was a trustee there and made sure i could not get help, because he is obviously afraid that i may remember
That was very clear and succinct. Thanks Rich. Knowing what is happening in your head is actually half way to managing it. I've lived with cptsd for pretty much most of my life but the more i understand it, the better i cope. I know it's just part of who I am and try to accept and embrace it as an... eccentricity rather than an illness. Find what works for YOU and stick with that. Stay well everyone; wash hands and only virtual hugging for now folks! 🤗☮️
Yes, this is me. I was bery angry when i was younger. It’s only now, thanks to you, Richard that I’ve begun to understand myself and my narcissistic parents and ex’s. The further i get from all of them, the clearer it becomes and the better my life gets. Thank you.
That's a great explanation Richard. Many, not all, of the symptoms you describe resonate with me. Recently I have had therapy which has lead me to understand why I am like I am. I now feel I need to work through the CPTSD side of things. Thank you.
This is me! Now I understand why I am feeling what I am feeling. When I panic and when I am scared to death while everything seems normal. I left my husband in august and he is still trying to get me back. I stopped the divorce and now we have a Lat relationship. I thougt he was a narcisist but can not tell every detail so clearly. Is more a " knowing" that he is. People and my children tell me he is really changed so I should give him a second change. When he is not with me I am fine most of the time. But at night I wake up sweating and panicing. And when he is with me my heart beats like a drum most of the time. Panic attacks. But now a days he seems really nice. It is al so confusing. We are married for 43 years now. And I am still struggling to be free. Now I now were the panic comes from. Many "little " traumas in childhood and during marriage. I am 62 now.
The most important vid you've made mate. It left me thinking, I understand whats wrong with me, and theres nothing wrong with me ... at the same time! (if that makes sense)
Wonderfully simple, but I do wish you would have mentioned the 4F responses. Your other video that connects those responses from the subconscious to experiences of anger, people pleasing, disassociation, anxiety and depression was a huge help for me to realize I was stuck in depression/freeze with fear as a result of my dad's violent rage as a child and then I switched to fawn/people pleasing when I was around him as an adult because he felt so threatening to me. Mainly, I was able to see the trauma bond I had with him. The more I come out of denial about it, the more I feel really depressed and almost immobile. I think this may be a primal freeze reaction to the thought of breaking the bond with him and admitting he was a narcissist. I fear his rage at me for standing up to him. What is amazing is he has been dead since 2016 but just the thought of confronting him is making me feel like crawling into bed in a fetal position. What makes it really confusing is I was my dad's golden child and my mother's scapegoat. My sister was my mother's golden child and my dad's scapegoat.
This explanation is amazing thank you so much. The part with feelings but no video to go with it. Just intense fear no link or recollection of why. Your work is much appreciated 🙏 🔥
Great video! The animations, although simple, really help to illustrate what you're describing. I also love your anthropomorphic representations of Complex and Classic PTSD.
I definitely have experienced all of those things that come with cptsd but I don’t know how to change them into things I can work around. I’m 18 so if I tell people about it I kno it sounds dramatic I guess people just don’t take me serious so your the only person I can really expect to understand so I‘lol just watch all your vids and see what I can find Thankyou for helping I’m very sick of being so sad/depressed and even unmotivated it ruins everything so I want to thank you so much for theses videos
Wow, well that cleared it up. Thank you Richard, I've never heard of cptsd before I started listening to you and it describes exactly what I've experienced since I was 15
That was excellent! It's truly helps me explain this CPSTD to others who need to know this. As a hospital chaplain, I am embarrassed to admit how little I actually know. On the positive side, we have "you." Thank you for such an interesting, enjoyable, and creative ways of explaining important points. :-)
I like this cartoon type video and the simple visuals you put along with it. These really have been hard concepts for me to grasp; the differentiation of the two. Thanks for simply clarifying! I like! Good job! 👏🏻😄
Yep. I've been having this. Certain recent life events and meditation brought it to the surface. I think I've cleared out a lot of the emotion now that was causing actual physical symptoms. The mood swings and emotions finally calm down when you are able to just let them flow. Funnily enough, this Corona virus has hardly brought on any anxiety at all.
I love it, the simplification of it, being a cartoon. This has been my life and it's a nightmare. I can't help but think how unfair it is for most people to be diagnosed with things like depression and chronic anxiety without C-PTSD to ever even be hinted at as the backdrop for all of it. Not a mental health professional but, I've experienced the hurt of being pathologised as mentally ill, by my gross mentally ill, hostile, infantile, narcissistic parents (and subsequently mental health professionals, as a child -: going to that of my own free will as an adult and maybe not pathologize but I already came to them about point telling them I was just a depressed anxious person, grossly revering them. Thank you Richard 👍
I just had a familiar but strange experience. I'm having a regular day, a good day. Starting at minute 00: 09: 00 I burst into tears and regret. I also remembered how much effort it takes me to complete any task. Even when I perfectly know what to do, even if it's an easy task. I also got a feeling of loneliness, despite having family members around all the time and meeting customers everyday as an Uber driver. I will definitely subscribe and learn from your RUclips channel, maybe and just maybe CPTSD is the problem I have and I didn't know it.
Yes, resonated very much with this. I don't suppose you are still keeping an eye on these comments now that this video is over ayear old, but it would be good to connect with you, as I like your practical and down to earth approach to this subject which I'm only getting used to accepting the idea of, that it DID happen, regularly, and there was no-one there to help me. Now I'm an adult and this is a helpful resource. Thank you for this video Richard. Maybe the muzak in the background could be turned down a little because what you say is more important to be heard than that noise. :)
this is great. I'm hoping this will be easier for my mum to digest, as I think she also suffers from cptsd. She can't focus for more than about 5-10 minutes so this is perfect. Thanks so much
Hello, Richard. Just about everything you've said in this video has or does apply to my experience here thus far. The difference? Photographic, Ultra 4k, 1080p memory that captured every sneer, every slap, every punch....in short absolutely everything...and there's a part of my conscious that enjoys metaphorically tapping me on the shoulder, then I least expect it of course, slams me with the entire event in vivid detail. Visual, audio, smells, feelings. The works. I flashback so often that I'm just about used to it anymore, which I realize isn't a good thing and I am working on it.
Congratulations on 200k subscribers, good video, I I it's hard to be as clever and widely experienced as a professional, also it's hard to always see yourself as others do , so theres a gap of reality in perspectives from different views, thanks Sir, love and peace everyone
I’ve experienced both throughout different parts of my life. My therapist says my PTSD is from my rape, and it goes dormant when I’m not physically intimate with a partner. My complex ptsd is from my childhood. I wish I’d been diagnosed long before my 50s.
This makes so much sense to me for me. I have C-PTSD. It can be confusing a lot of the time, cause sometimes I have no Idea what's going on that's a problem for me a lot.
Now i understand... I was thinking that my "traumas" were not that extreme as others.. but the symptoms are all present... and i am too worried for my future... That is complex ptsd... thank you for this video..
What a great explanation Rich, although I always prefer seeing your lovely face to a cartoon (beautifully put together tho!). I can relate to the CPTSD aspects of not understanding why lethargy and a sense of giving up hung around me for years - until I identified the abusive relationship I was in with a covert narc. Now out of it, it has been a slow gentle journey back to me. Still struggle to keep my energy where it should be though; notice I go into a form of freeze when upset or stressed. Brilliant work Rich - and so pleased to see how far you've come in your own journey. ✊
Flashbacks can also cause a person to feel themselves shutting down, unable to move or communicate, with the need to curl up and retreat from the world. This was my response, sometimes it would be caused by just a word or a facial expression, leaving me feeling utterly confused with the world. It has taken a few years of difficult work and going deep to figure out why and analyse the cause, however it has been worth the struggle, flashbacks are now few and far between, I am able to deal with in minutes rather than days. The above Course by Richard allowed me to make huge progress, understanding brings a freedom and validation, allowing us to move forward knowing we are not the problem.
I'm finding my way out of my black hole of of despair/safety now. Such a hard climb. But i spent years digging this thing...so it'll take a long time finding my way to sun I guess. Plus one of my emotional triggers is still in the house...
@@sandrad2597 Pleased to hear from you and hope my words have helped. One thing that I hold onto and which helped me to move forward and it is very important you take this on board is that you are not the problem, you were never the problem, remember who you really are and be you. For decades I did not know who or what I was, confusion was everywhere and the depths of despair, the fear, not understanding what was happening was my normal, but you can get beyond that. It is not easy I know only too well how hard it can be but discover who you are again and remember none of this was ever your fault no matter what they say. Stay strong Sandra, I still have some issues with a family member but that is their problem and I will not stoop to their levels anymore. Much love to you Sandra and remember none of this was ever your fault 🙂💖
I relate to this.
Absolutely. For me it looks like my mind goes completly blank sometimes, I can't think, I can't speak... although I am still completly conscious of my surroundings. But I wanna vanish in these situations and hide under a rock.
Very interesting. I’d say repeatedly being bullied or being emotionally abused by parents are huge reasons for people to develop CPTSD
Yep
Or by other kids in primary school... I guess..
Both completly true for my youth...
Its complicated, its also in the name.
@@L5biszz true
There's a bright side! All these years of being alone has left me realizing that the negative triggers I used to experience are less affecting... One day i'll join the world again! In this life or the next :)
You're part of it already and I'm happy for that ^^
Just learning about this as it is my circumstance from a very young age. As an old man now, I wish I'd seen your content 40+ years ago. Your doing great work sir, I thank you so much and hope you are safe.
I take it you were raised by narcissists?
@@dasein9980 of course, unfortunately.
Long suspected that I experience CPTSD. The clarification that emotional flashbacks denote CPTSD is really helpful. I’ve never seen them as flashbacks but purely my emotional reactivity. I realise that I’m like a wounded animal and lash out at people that try to get close, not necessarily in an outwardly aggressive way but through a predatory internal voice. I emotionally cut off from people without being conscious of doing it. I find it almost impossible to trust anyone including myself. I try to work on this but it feels like 2 steps forward 1.8 steps back. But I am tenacious and will continue to strive.
Thanks Richard
The lady looking sad while doing the dishes, thats me everyday having these emotional flashblacks.
I'm pissed off doing the dishes and it's may be emotional flashbacks
many of us are, sweety!
I wish the Universe send you real LOVE.
.....you will do the dishes singing!
How are you now??
Dishes are not fun in the first place.
@SoulSpa6835 I broke contact with my mother after 5 years and it was a mistake. She will not admit to anything, in fact she put me right back in the role of having to worry and help them. Even after my MS diagnosis.
The anger I carry has literally affected every area of my entire life.
Same here, Kimberly. I’m 25, and I’ve felt such an inexplainable anger since I don’t know when. I’ve only just started to have control over it in the last two years, but it’s still hard to cope with it sometimes. It burns me out, it drains me mentally, and I feel defeated most days. But I’m slowly learning how to cope with it in healthy ways. These feelings have to subside one day. I know we can’t take these feelings with us to the afterlife, so hopefully the disperse and we can find peace. I hope you find some peace of mind in your lifetime, Kim. This burden isn’t worth the strength it takes to carry. I’m praying for you
Learning about the memories not having pictures just alleviated a lot of my confusion. Yes I resonate with this 1000% The strong waves of emotion can make it very hard to function effectively.
Yes! This is definitely me and I have been working diligently for years to reduce or eliminate the symptoms. The way people are currently acting in public has triggered me intensely.
Same here.. The masks are VERY triggering. Maybe because I'm a domestic violence survivor who has been strangled.
This man is a hero. He is so generous to share this information, which he clearly has studied vigorously to gain, to help others. You can tell he knows the material inside and out.
Yes, the childhood trauma you can’t even remember 😭
@@SilentFigure1 hi Ted! How's it going where you are?
Empower Empaths my ex said the same thing. She thought she might have been molested at the age of 12 but she wasn’t sure
@@AngelKrystalStar Ottawa sorry just saw this.
@@jaredmello amazing how the human brain works with this stuff 🤯 one day I just remembered everything so clear and so much.
@@AngelKrystalStar Many memories come back to me when i'm half asleep. Either falling asleep, or waking up. (not sure which stage of sleep it's called)
Richard, best explanation of CPTSD I have seen online. Thanks for making the complex easy to express!
This is me. Cptsd. But I also have PTSD. I am a Veteran.
It took a very long time to understand that what I had was PTSD. It took even longer to understand that I actually had both. Very well done!
Look at you going all animated here!! Great move Richard! It's truly a wonderful thing to witness you reaching out to the world and teaching and giving hope where some may have never thought there was hope for them. You rock brotha!!
Jason Bradley He’s generous and so good at everything he does. I love this new animation style, rockin it.
@@catsmeow3478 ty but I am a blood bought child of the Living God Jesus... Just have lived alone so long I feel like I dying inside.
I may not act like it because I have been secluded for many years and my depression is at its worse and every part of my body hurts. I pray when the pain is the worst for Jesus to just take me where there is no more pain. Maybe He is allowing my suffering for a reason. I don't know. But it does not matter, I praise Him everyday no matter what. Maranatha.
I'm diagnosed with C-ptsd but wasn't convinced because I don't suffer from flashbacks, only panic attacks, even though doctors and psychologists never seemed to believe that it was panic attacks. I recently heard about emotional flashbacks and searched everywhere to find an illustration of an emotional flashback. Maybe my panic attack weren't panic attacks but flashbacks? I looked around to see if anyone else may have been confusing flashbacks for panic attacks. I started reading stories of people figuring out flashbacks in therapy and also say "I always called them panic attacks". Thank you for this illustration of an emotional flashback. I believe it's very important to recognize flashbacks in order to handle and treat them. I believe the approach of treating panic attack or flashback is complete different and I've never felt understood in therapy while trying to explain these experiences.
oh wow....judt wow!!
This cartoony video is so essy to understand....
you seem calmer......no swearing and u were respectful n polite....so different from some of your other vids......thank you so much Richard.
I defo have CPTSD....never diagnosed....i do believe that many gps dont know enough about this condition
To have a proper name for my emotional state n problems is liberating.....meaning im not just sad or a nervous wreck for nothing.
My main symptom over 30 years of struggling often alone, has been memory n cognitive problems....almost like dementia.
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I now believe this to be caused by CPTSD, which is a huge relief.
Thanku so so much for this wonderfully thoughtful video.
you totally described me !!! CPTSD... thank you Richard for helping me understand myself more and more each day and each month. i`m learning a lot from you , i`m finally putting the peaces together... appreciate your hard work that you put for us. knowledge is power ❤🕊🙏
Thankyou for making this clarity available to help people on a very challenging journey back to being present
Definitely me! I have found your videos incredibly helpful, and I wanted to say thank you to you for everything that you do. I have been working on my own recovery for almost 3 years, due to a lack of doctors with qualifications necessary to treat c-ptsd in my area. It can sometimes be incredibly overwhelming and confusing, and videos like yours go a long way toward clearing up some of the murkiness.
Ok, really good instructional video - thanks - but i am so happy that the dog in your example is a Rottie!! I had a Rottie, and she was the kindest, bravest, funniest, most noble soul i know. They're such a joy!
All of the above. Worked it out mostly by myself and reading, though I have been through different counseling experiences that were adequate for that moment, to get me through so I could function ... it is ongoing ... I am 65 and life just keeps providing pain and loss to juggle ... make the best of the rest, I say! Get as well as you can! (y)
It takes just a bit of courage to get past certain sticking points, to face certain things and voice them, and you, RG, have just provided important words.
Decades go by not healing sometimes just for lack of the right words to have certain realizations, unlock a memory, name a feeling or voice a perception.
Be encouraged ...
Life is short. I'm 64 n my flirtation with cptsd commenced 60yrs ago. It has totalled my whole life so far - I refuse to give it the rest. Shit happens but around not TO you. Be free now and be magnificent. 🍀🌈☮️
@@sliewood the days dwindle down ... yes ... ;)
I say choose whenever possible, rational, courageous to make every *NOW* as enjoyable/meaningful/healing educational as possible ...
Sometimes lots and lots of shit happens like Ground Hog Day for great lengths of time, as we are seeing now.
Anyway in general, if life is fine great.
If something won't do, if it affects your life daily functioning etc then seek out the healing ...
Knowing and understanding also helps me see the monsters from miles away finally. That helps ...
Omg! I have been diagnosed by "neuropsychologist, psychiatrist and counselors" as everything but CPTSD! Richard, you are frickin awesome
Uggh it feels so much easier when you have something concrete to blame!
I was bullied in elementary school for over five years, but home was pretty messed up too, and the village I lived in was generally evil in some wicked sense. Many were/are members of one or another local cult. Children beat and bully each other on these grounds and adults keep it going, isolating their children when young and beating them when they misbehave. It's very confusing and deeply malignant. Every time I think I actually manage to pinpoint my trauma some new insight comes along and makes me all disoriented again. The framework you're offering helps tremendously though, putting words on the whole sequence of my life that loaded me with fear.
SO THANK YOU
My father was in a very horrible war and came home an alcoholic and a drug addict. He beat me and my family up every single day and locked us in closets for days. Once when he was drunk he loaded his rifle and started shooting at my mother. She was running as fast as she could and the bullets kept missing her because he couldn't aim that good. This went on every single day for 14 years. I have autism and I can remember almost every single day of my life. It's so hard to remembering EVERYTHING!
this video is concise and checks all the boxes. I have had flashbacks (memory of standing at the front door with my brother as my mother , hollering that she was not coming back, got in her car and sped off..leaving us standing there crying.) I also have anxiety attacks with situations that had happened since..where it cannot be explained..and to others, may have no rhyme or reason. Thank you for this. I am sharing it so that maybe those around me can understand why I am the way that I am.
This is imminently sharable, thank you Richard.
That explains everything, me myself and I. Wow will be downloading the PDF file. Enjoyed the animation too! Thank you.
Yep, that explains me completely! Thank you for making this video!!! I've watched several of your videos on emotional flashbacks and just couldn't grasp the idea or meaning...until now! Thank you!! It's scary to see yourself relate to basically everything in the video, but it's a starting point not an end point. ;)
Thanks a lot for that video. I have C-PTSD, know it for almost a year now, but that video really helped me to see the origin, the cause, the creation of a c-ptsd as a third person.
@6:00 to 9:20 ... WOW. THANK YOU!
I'm 2 years out of 8 years of pain and confusion, and I still feel broken and unable to function in a world that now feels like a constant trigger for bad feelings WITHOUT specific memories attached. That *IS* me in this video, completely... right down to the guy in the frozen foods section of the grocery store! 🙏 THANK YOU for validating my experience.
They diagnosed me with PTSD, but this is what I really have... Cptsd
Yes here too! That's exactly what my conclusion is for me. It may not always feel like it but finding out will be liberating because it's the first step towards healing. Hang in there my friend. 💙
me too. professionals should not be in this field unless they have issues like us. They have no freakin' clue what they are talking about and rarely make correct assessments because they can't relate.
I too was diagnosed ptsd, major depressive, bpd (they used that to terminate parental rights claiming I was a risk for future harm). My ada advocate who was also a trained therapist etc diagnosed me with cptsd. She looked at my entire history and records. The court hired psychologist that diagnosed me for parental court only saw me 2 times and did not look at my records nor my history and also spoke with an abusive ex spouse about me but never met with current spouse. Psychiatry and incorrect diagnosis can destroy your life.
Unfortunately, CPSD is not included in the DMS5 but PTSD is.
@@thegnszoo2590 I have CPTSD ... and sat in a psychiatrist's office for 21 years! It was just before the CPTSD/PTSD had even been looked at. I am still healing ... and accept it is on-going now that I am tacking in a better direction. ACOA and CPTSD work have been enhancing for me, taken together.
Helpful format that simplifies this without making the viewer feel stupid, however ignorant we may be to the construct of CPTSD
I tick both boxes. I'm gaining a good understanding, and differentiating between the traumas, and how it masked my autism, every day is a step forward in healing now. I'm happy 💖
This is so me. I have a vague understanding that my childhood was often in unpredictable and scary environments but not very good recall of a lot of it. Now I’m off to find the videos that tell me how to sort this out and stop seemingly self-sabotaging my own life 🙃
Unpredictable and scary? Yep, I know exactly the feeling as a child.
Animation? Okay. I like it. Very relatable. Making a hard topic soft with animation. Clever.
As you have invited, yes Richard, this describes my experience past and present.
Now you have another invitation, we may be in similar boats. Hope you get time to have a look this way. Stay safe and strong.
The flashback summary is very well done, as I eventually got a visual on it. First I was a little disappointed that it is an animation but after a few minutes it became irrelevant. Thanks Richard
Thank you Richard
Oh my God! Cartoon Richard is so incredibly adorable 🥰🥰🥰 The format reminds me of The School of Life a lot, which I love.
Thank you for this. You have a very insightful, gentle way of ‘teaching’. Much appreciated. God bless. ☺️🌹👍🏽
This was very helpful. I Love this , I like the pictures / visuals. This is explained so well. Thank you
This is an excellent presentation. This is me, through and through.
I hate to say it, but I prefer the animated version of you. You bear a very strong resemblance to the person who caused all the trauma. Watching the real you is triggering, in and of itself.
Thank you.
Myself snd my partner both suffer from cptsd, we do have some interesting days, but we have each other to discuss things , we didn't realise that we used to play with each other as children, my childhood memories are extremely fragmented, when my mother died recently, i found some photos of us, ones my brother hadn't removed , i find we have helped each other by talking and laughing when we can, some things we choose not to remember, but realising that i didn't make things up and i am not mad is a huge relief. So glad to have found your programme very very helpful. Also tried to get help from a mental health organization local to myself, but my narcissistic brother was a trustee there and made sure i could not get help, because he is obviously afraid that i may remember
Holy crap! How have I never seen animated Richard before? I thought I saw just about every video you have made. Love it...Thank you Richard.
That was very clear and succinct. Thanks Rich. Knowing what is happening in your head is actually half way to managing it. I've lived with cptsd for pretty much most of my life but the more i understand it, the better i cope. I know it's just part of who I am and try to accept and embrace it as an... eccentricity rather than an illness. Find what works for YOU and stick with that.
Stay well everyone; wash hands and only virtual hugging for now folks! 🤗☮️
Yes, this is me. I was bery angry when i was younger. It’s only now, thanks to you, Richard that I’ve begun to understand myself and my narcissistic parents and ex’s. The further i get from all of them, the clearer it becomes and the better my life gets. Thank you.
Thank you again Richard!! Where would we be without your wisdom?!!
That's a great explanation Richard. Many, not all, of the symptoms you describe resonate with me. Recently I have had therapy which has lead me to understand why I am like I am. I now feel I need to work through the CPTSD side of things. Thank you.
Thank you Richard!!! I am sending this to my Mother and my Daughter! Beautifully done!
This is me! Now I understand why I am feeling what I am feeling. When I panic and when I am scared to death while everything seems normal. I left my husband in august and he is still trying to get me back. I stopped the divorce and now we have a Lat relationship. I thougt he was a narcisist but can not tell every detail so clearly. Is more a " knowing" that he is. People and my children tell me he is really changed so I should give him a second change. When he is not with me I am fine most of the time. But at night I wake up sweating and panicing. And when he is with me my heart beats like a drum most of the time. Panic attacks. But now a days he seems really nice. It is al so confusing. We are married for 43 years now. And I am still struggling to be free. Now I now were the panic comes from. Many "little " traumas in childhood and during marriage. I am 62 now.
Thank you very much Richard Grannon. You explain this to very well.
Brilliant video, thank you for your time and energy.
Thank you Richard. Very informative & very well presented. 😊
The most important vid you've made mate. It left me thinking, I understand whats wrong with me, and theres nothing wrong with me ... at the same time! (if that makes sense)
Wonderfully simple, but I do wish you would have mentioned the 4F responses. Your other video that connects those responses from the subconscious to experiences of anger, people pleasing, disassociation, anxiety and depression was a huge help for me to realize I was stuck in depression/freeze with fear as a result of my dad's violent rage as a child and then I switched to fawn/people pleasing when I was around him as an adult because he felt so threatening to me. Mainly, I was able to see the trauma bond I had with him. The more I come out of denial about it, the more I feel really depressed and almost immobile. I think this may be a primal freeze reaction to the thought of breaking the bond with him and admitting he was a narcissist. I fear his rage at me for standing up to him. What is amazing is he has been dead since 2016 but just the thought of confronting him is making me feel like crawling into bed in a fetal position. What makes it really confusing is I was my dad's golden child and my mother's scapegoat. My sister was my mother's golden child and my dad's scapegoat.
This is so me, how nicely done and concise,
This explanation is amazing thank you so much. The part with feelings but no video to go with it. Just intense fear no link or recollection of why. Your work is much appreciated 🙏 🔥
This is so great in detail and in info!
Many many thumps up for this!
And congrats on 200.000 subscribers! 👍🏻💪🏻
What an awesome production! Thank you, Richard.
This information is absolutely priceless!
Incredibly clear, great work.
Great video! The animations, although simple, really help to illustrate what you're describing.
I also love your anthropomorphic representations of Complex and Classic PTSD.
Thank you Richard, for your time and attention.
Thank you! Definitely spot on and very, very helpful. I like the format and the music and keep watching it
I definitely have experienced all of those things that come with cptsd but I don’t know how to change them into things I can work around. I’m 18 so if I tell people about it I kno it sounds dramatic I guess people just don’t take me serious so your the only person I can really expect to understand so I‘lol just watch all your vids and see what I can find
Thankyou for helping I’m very sick of being so sad/depressed and even unmotivated it ruins everything so I want to thank you so much for theses videos
Wow! Perfectly put! Best of all, I remember where it came from and the progressive time line. Thank you Richard!
Thank you for your videos especially this one. It helped me learn a lot about myself
💯 yes this is me. This was done amazingly well for anyone to understand!👌
WOW!! LIGHT BLUB!!! explains so much.. thank you .
Feel them all and that lovely critic in my head damns me for feeling good, sick, lazy, unmotivated...really it damns me for feeling anything.
This is the video I've been waiting for from you, thank you.
Wow, well that cleared it up. Thank you Richard, I've never heard of cptsd before I started listening to you and it describes exactly what I've experienced since I was 15
Thanx Richard! Excellent to share!
Yes, makes a lot of sense to me Thank you for putting this information together in a light hearted and easy to follow way.
That was excellent! It's truly helps me explain this CPSTD to others who need to know this. As a hospital chaplain, I am embarrassed to admit how little I actually know. On the positive side, we have "you." Thank you for such an interesting, enjoyable, and creative ways of explaining important points. :-)
Congratulations on 200k subs!!
Richard made himself an avatar so all us girls will be able to focus on the content vs how adorable he is. 😉
That made me laugh! 😁🤔😆
Oh my days thinking this exactly. I had stop watching videos I couldn't bloody concentrate!
Yes! Corect ! 😊
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I must absolutely and completely agree! I really didn't realize just how wonderfully distracting he was until I saw this!!
I like this cartoon type video and the simple visuals you put along with it. These really have been hard concepts for me to grasp; the differentiation of the two. Thanks for simply clarifying! I like! Good job! 👏🏻😄
Yep. I've been having this. Certain recent life events and meditation brought it to the surface. I think I've cleared out a lot of the emotion now that was causing actual physical symptoms. The mood swings and emotions finally calm down when you are able to just let them flow. Funnily enough, this Corona virus has hardly brought on any anxiety at all.
I love it, the simplification of it, being a cartoon. This has been my life and it's a nightmare. I can't help but think how unfair it is for most people to be diagnosed with things like depression and chronic anxiety without C-PTSD to ever even be hinted at as the backdrop for all of it. Not a mental health professional but, I've experienced the hurt of being pathologised as mentally ill, by my gross mentally ill, hostile, infantile, narcissistic parents (and subsequently mental health professionals, as a child -: going to that of my own free will as an adult and maybe not pathologize but I already came to them about point telling them I was just a depressed anxious person, grossly revering them.
Thank you Richard 👍
Omg I needed this! Thank you for helping us all 💜
I just had a familiar but strange experience. I'm having a regular day, a good day.
Starting at minute 00: 09: 00 I burst into tears and regret. I also remembered how much effort it takes me to complete any task. Even when I perfectly know what to do, even if it's an easy task.
I also got a feeling of loneliness, despite having family members around all the time and meeting customers everyday as an Uber driver.
I will definitely subscribe and learn from your RUclips channel, maybe and just maybe CPTSD is the problem I have and I didn't know it.
I LOVED IT AND YOU! THANK YOU SO MUCH RICHARD! GREAT VIDEO! 👍👍❤️❤️‼️
This is exactly what I've been going through for years ...needs to get out to all people suffering amazing
Yes, resonated very much with this. I don't suppose you are still keeping an eye on these comments now that this video is over ayear old, but it would be good to connect with you, as I like your practical and down to earth approach to this subject which I'm only getting used to accepting the idea of, that it DID happen, regularly, and there was no-one there to help me. Now I'm an adult and this is a helpful resource. Thank you for this video Richard. Maybe the muzak in the background could be turned down a little because what you say is more important to be heard than that noise. :)
this is great. I'm hoping this will be easier for my mum to digest, as I think she also suffers from cptsd. She can't focus for more than about 5-10 minutes so this is perfect. Thanks so much
Awesome explanation. Thank you
Hello, Richard. Just about everything you've said in this video has or does apply to my experience here thus far. The difference? Photographic, Ultra 4k, 1080p memory that captured every sneer, every slap, every punch....in short absolutely everything...and there's a part of my conscious that enjoys metaphorically tapping me on the shoulder, then I least expect it of course, slams me with the entire event in vivid detail. Visual, audio, smells, feelings. The works.
I flashback so often that I'm just about used to it anymore, which I realize isn't a good thing and I am working on it.
This is definitely me! Great great great video! 👍👍👍
Was an unexpected video, very calm and compassionate. Geared more for younger crowd? Still excellent. Thanks Richard.
Congratulations on 200k subscribers, good video, I I it's hard to be as clever and widely experienced as a professional, also it's hard to always see yourself as others do , so theres a gap of reality in perspectives from different views, thanks Sir, love and peace everyone
Thank you Richard. Great format.
I’ve experienced both throughout different parts of my life. My therapist says my PTSD is from my rape, and it goes dormant when I’m not physically intimate with a partner. My complex ptsd is from my childhood. I wish I’d been diagnosed long before my 50s.
This makes so much sense to me for me. I have C-PTSD. It can be confusing a lot of the time, cause sometimes I have no Idea what's going on that's a problem for me a lot.
Now i understand...
I was thinking that my "traumas" were not that extreme as others.. but the symptoms are all present... and i am too worried for my future...
That is complex ptsd... thank you for this video..
Congrats on 200K subscribers! 😁👍
What a great explanation Rich, although I always prefer seeing your lovely face to a cartoon (beautifully put together tho!). I can relate to the CPTSD aspects of not understanding why lethargy and a sense of giving up hung around me for years - until I identified the abusive relationship I was in with a covert narc. Now out of it, it has been a slow gentle journey back to me. Still struggle to keep my energy where it should be though; notice I go into a form of freeze when upset or stressed. Brilliant work Rich - and so pleased to see how far you've come in your own journey. ✊
Yes, it's me. Cptsd. Now thank to you I can name all those things. Thank you so much for your help!
Spot on Richard.
Yes, this is me. The emotional flash backs totally screw my executive functions.