C-PTSD

from Flying Free

When you have an uneven power dynamic in a marriage PLUS emotional abuse (and spiritual abuse if the husband or church are telling the woman she is at fault for pointing out the abuse), PLUS the teaching that divorce is wrong, and no matter what the "authority/husband" does to her, she is stuck in the marriage until she dies...

You've got all the ingredients for an emotionally and physically crippling case of C-PTSD.

Reminder for myself: C-PTSD is complex post-traumatic stress disorder which is PTSD but with additional symptoms:

PTSD:
-reliving the trauma or experience
-avoiding certain situations
-changes in beliefs or feelings about others
-hyperarousal
-somatic symptoms

C-PTSD:
-lack of emotional regulation
-changes in consciousness
-negative self-perception
-difficulty with relationships
-distorted perception of abuser
-loss of systems or meaning