COMPLEX TRAUMA & PTSD TREATMENT CENTER CALIFORNIA

PTSD & COMPLEX TRAUMA
PTSD & Complex Trauma
Trauma can result in PTSD, depression, and anxiety. There are effective treatments for healing trauma, and we can help you find the right solution for you. At Reconnect PTSD Treatment Center California, we provide focused treatment by helping you address underlying trauma, so you can reconnect to yourself and, ultimately, to your community.
Types of Trauma:
- Relationship Trauma: This includes loss of a loved one or can present as emotional, verbal, or sexual abuse. Living with a narcissistic or borderline partner or family member can also result in symptoms
- Medical Trauma: The life-changing impact of a new medical diagnosis or long-term illness can present as trauma
- Physical Trauma: Injuries such as car accidents, falls, or other extreme events can result in flashbacks and additional symptoms
- Natural Disasters: Such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and other extreme weather events out of an individual’s control
- Acts of Violence: Experiencing crime, rape, assault, robbery, or witnessing such acts
- Military Service: Experiencing combat or other traumatic incidents while serving

How Do I Know If I’m Suffering from Trauma
There are a variety of trauma symptoms and they present differently in each person.
Some symptoms of trauma include:
- Uncertainty about the reliability And predictability of the world
- Problems with boundaries
- Distress and suspiciousness
- Social isolation
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Difficulty attuning to other people’s emotional States
- Difficulty with perspective taking
- Difficulty enlisting other people as allies
- Sensorimotor developmental problems
- Hypersensitivity to physical contact
- Analgesia-the inability to feel pain
- Problems with concentration, balance, body tone
- Difficulties localizing skin contact
- Somatization-the production of recurrent and multiple medical symptoms with no discernible organic cause
- Increased medical problems across a wide span, e.g. pelvic pain, asthma, skin problems, autoimmune disorders, pseudoseizures
- Difficulty with emotional self-regulation
- Difficulty describing feelings and internal experience
- Problem is knowing and describing internal states
- Difficulty communicating wishes and desires
- Distinct alterations in states of consciousness
- Amnesia
- Depersonalization and Derealization
- Two or more distinct states of consciousness, with impaired memory For state-based event
- Poor modulation of impulses
- Self-destructive behavior
- Aggression against others
- Pathological self soothing behaviors
- Sleep disturbances
- Eating disorders
- Substance abuse
- Excessive compliance
- Oppositional behavior
- Difficulty understanding and complying with rules
- Communication of traumatic past by reenactment in day-to-day behavior or play (Sexual, aggressive, etc.)
- Difficulties in attention regulation and executive functioning
- Lack of sustained curiosity
- Problems with processing novel information
- Problems focusing on and completing tasks
- Problem with object constancy
- Difficulty planning and anticipating
- Problems understanding own contribution to what happens to them
- Learning difficulties
- Problems with language development
- Problems with orientation in time and space
- Acoustic and visual perceptual problems
- Impaired comprehension of complex visual-spatial patterns
- Lack of continuous, predictable sense of self
- Poor sense of separateness
- Disturbances of body image
- Low self-esteem
- Shame and guilt
- Shock, including numbed emotions or questioning your memory
- Denial
- Feelings of helplessness
- Fear of dying or being abandoned
- Confusion and disorientation
- Numbness
- Panic
- Dissociation or feeling disconnected from yourself
- Feeling that the world is not real or is distorted
- Unwanted thoughts, including flashbacks to traumatic memories
- Feelings of loss of control
- Trouble sleeping
- Physical pain, including migraines or nausea
- Uncertainty about the reliability And predictability of the world
- Problems with boundaries
- Distress and suspiciousness
- Social isolation
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Difficulty attuning to other people’s emotional States
- Difficulty with perspective taking
- Difficulty enlisting other people as allies
Biology
- Sensorimotor developmental problems
- Hypersensitivity to physical contact
- Analgesia-the inability to feel pain
- Problems with concentration, balance, body tone
- Difficulties localizing skin contact
- Somatization-the production of recurrent and multiple medical symptoms with no discernible organic cause
- Increased medical problems across a wide span, e.g. pelvic pain, asthma, skin problems, autoimmune disorders, pseudoseizures
Affect Regulation
- Difficulty with emotional self-regulation
- Difficulty describing feelings and internal experience
- Problem is knowing and describing internal states
- Difficulty communicating wishes and desires
Dissociation
- Distinct alterations in states of consciousness
- Amnesia
- Depersonalization and Derealization
- Two or more distinct states of consciousness, with impaired memory For state-based event
Behavioral control
- Poor modulation of impulses
- Self-destructive behavior
- Aggression against others
- Pathological self soothing behaviors
- Sleep disturbances
- Eating disorders
- Substance abuse
- Excessive compliance
- Oppositional behavior
- Difficulty understanding and complying with rules
- Communication of traumatic past by reenactment in day-to-day behavior or play (Sexual, aggressive, etc.)
Cognition
- Difficulties in attention regulation and executive functioning
- Lack of sustained curiosity
- Problems with processing novel information
- Problems focusing on and completing tasks
- Problem with object constancy
- Difficulty planning and anticipating
- Problems understanding own contribution to what happens to them
- Learning difficulties
- Problems with language development
- Problems with orientation in time and space
- Acoustic and visual perceptual problems
- Impaired comprehension of complex visual-spatial patterns
Self-concept
- Lack of continuous, predictable sense of self
- Poor sense of separateness
- Disturbances of body image
- Low self-esteem
- Shame and guilt
Additional Symptoms
- Shock, including numbed emotions or questioning your memory
- Denial
- Feelings of helplessness
- Fear of dying or being abandoned
- Confusion and disorientation
- Numbness
- Panic
- Dissociation or feeling disconnected from yourself
- Feeling that the world is not real or is distorted
- Unwanted thoughts, including flashbacks to traumatic memories
- Feelings of loss of control
- Trouble sleeping
- Physical pain, including migraines or nausea