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🍃Art Commissions Open🍃 🚫No Art Requests Until Told🚫 Hi I'm Nameless! Friends call me 'kitten' 'kit kit' or 'Nameless'. I'm asexual aromantic, an ambivert (ESE (or ESFj)), 7 of ennegram, and atheist. I'm genderless too. If you want more info about me go to 'READ FIRST IF YOU'RE NEW'. :3c (RFN book sprite on non-mobile blog)
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Steven Universe doesn’t just have PTSD, he has complex PTSD

If I get anything wrong, please correct me! I’m not a psychologist and I don’t have any form of PTSD. 

Everyone’s saying Steven has PTSD, and they’re not wrong, C-PTSD is a type of PTSD, but since nobody’s mentioned specifically C-PTSD I’d thought I’d talk about it. While it is not recognised as a separate disorder by the DSM yet, it is recognised as a separate disorder by many medical professionals and by WHO, so it’s worth talking about.

C-PTSD is a form of PTSD that occurs when someone is exposed to severe, repetitive trauma over a long period of time, rather than just PTSD which develop due to short-term exposure to a single traumatic event. Since Steven doesn’t just have one trauma, but rather many (so many), I think it’s important to talk about C-PTSD. 

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In addition to all of the core symptoms of PTSD, people with C-PTSD may also experience:

Difficulty controlling their emotions 

Dissociation (thanks @honeybee1895​!)

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A negative self-image 

Alienating themselves from personal relationships

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Changes in beliefs (I dunno, maybe because he’s less willing to befriend his enemies? Could be a stretch though. It’s really hard to tell which of his changing beliefs are a result of C-PTSD and which are just a result of growing up.)

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Gooooooooood mooooooorning~!! ‘=w=

I got better sleep last night, but I still gotta shower today... ‘>w> Thank goodness this week is a normal week now. I gotta make some calls today too, but- since most things outside are in a panic here... I doubt I’ll get any news for new events or job notifications right now. ‘>o> We’ll see though... Hopefully not too long. I might go to the library too today.

Anyway, feel free to talk and hang out today I’ll just be home all day not doing much. :3c

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