Complex PTSD Melbourne support

This is a group for people with Complex PTSD. Also known as developmental trauma, rather than a single traumatic event. This group is meant to be a gentle space where we can find understanding, patience, insight, inclusion, healing, self-empowerment, as we attempt to find solutions.

Here is a list of some core difficulties that occur with Complex PTSD. Difficulty in developing:

- Self-acceptance - Clear sense of identity
- Self-compassion
- Self-Protection
- Capacity to draw comfort from relationship
- Ability to relax
- Capacity for full self-expression
- Willpower & Motivation
- Peace of mind
- Self-care
- Self-esteem
- Self-confidence

Common symptoms include what Pete Walker terms "emotional flashbacks", a relentless inner and/or outer critique, toxic shame, intense fear of and reaction to loss, self-abandonment, social anxiety, loneliness (which often does not lift even when we have company as we spend this time terrified and trying to hide), fragile self-esteem, attachment issues, radical mood shifts, dissociation via distracting activities or mental processes, despair and suicidal ideation. The term Complex PTSD often encapsulates and gets to the heart of many other disorders we have been diagnosed with.

Note that this an online only group.