Trauma Isn’t One Size Fits All: How Online Support Communities Point to Different Diagnostic Criteria for C-PTSD and PTSD

Wang, Weixi; Blackburn, Kate G.; Thompson, Rachel M.; Bajaj, Karishma; Pedler, Rhea; Fucci, Kelsie

doi:10.1080/10410236.2024.2314343

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“…While PTSD can occur a single acute events like car accidents, cPTSD results from prolonged trauma. Both disorders involve stress responses like flashbacks and hypervigilance, but cPTSD includes persistent challenges in emotion regulation, identity, and relationships (Wang et al 2024 ). These latter three domains characteristic of cPTSD can play a fundamental role in exacerbating the affective symptomatology of bipolar disorder and explain much of the results reported in Table 4 .…”

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How effective are mood stabilizers in treating bipolar patients comorbid with cPTSD? Results from an observational study

Iazzolino,

Valenza,

D’Angelo

et al. 2024

Int J Bipolar Disord

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Background Multiple traumatic experiences, particularly in childhood, may predict and be a risk factor for the development of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD). Unfortunately, individuals with bipolar disorder (BP) are more likely to have suffered traumatic events than the general population. Consequently, cPTSD could be comorbid with BD, and this may negatively affect psychopathological manifestations. To date, no one has explored whether such comorbidity also affects the response to treatment with mood stabilizers in BD patients. Results Here, a cross-sectional study was carried out by comparing the response to treatment, measured by the Alda scale, in a cohort of 344 patients diagnosed with BD type I and II, screened for the presence (or absence) of cPTSD using the International Trauma Questionnaire. The main result that emerged from the present study is the poorer response to mood stabilizers in BD patients with comorbid cPTSD compared with BD patients without cPTSD. Conclusions The results collected suggest the need for an add-on therapy focused on trauma in BD patients. This could represent an area of future interest in clinical research, capable of leading to more precise and quicker diagnoses as well as suggesting better tailored and more effective treatments.

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confidence: 99%