SOCIAL MEDIA RANT: There is no such thing as CPTSD - all trauma is complex (AND MORE!)
We don't need a specifier for PTSD. And I know, "Van der Kolk says blah, blah, blah..."
What else bugs the crap out of you?
"Trauma-informed care", "ADHD-Informed care", "X-Informed care" screams "I took a class about ADHD, and Trauma, and other things in grad school so yeah... I've been informed."
AUDHD - is a bunch of b.s. You have ADHD because you have grown up with your damned phone glued to the end of your nose. Now you feel different - almost like you can't pick up on social cues. At least not on the social cues that haven't been performed for you by your favorite influencer for the past 20 something years.
You're not autistic because you feel a little different that other people, Becky! You probably feel different because people don't want to spend time with a borderline who constantly brings drama to every single human interaction. People keep rejecting you, you can't figure out why, so rather than introspect (which is a legitimate feature of BPD) you blame your issues on some obscure disorder that takes a thorough and exhaustive exam to properly diagnose. And no - the online, quickie and/or free assessment you found on instagram/tik tok/facebook/etc. doesn't count.
Coaches - the worst. They are unregulated, unsupervised and usually untrained. There needs to be legislation to regulate people who attempt to enter into a "coaching" racket.
4 years in grad school. 4 tears of supervision, thousands of hours with patients, thousands of dollars in tuition, books, supervision, insurance and so on. And some asshat can just hang a shingle and pretend to know better than my colleagues and I? And get away with charging people for it? In the words of Joe De Rossa, "Have some dignity and do what every other human failure has done and become a realtor."