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Consciousness.Those who have endured complex trauma may relive traumatic events, feel disassociated from the trauma, their bodies, the world and/or have problems with accessing their memories of the trauma.

Emotional Regulation.Complex trauma survivors can struggle with feelings of depression, suicidal ideation as well as extreme rage.The National Center for PTSD notes that those who suffer from Complex Trauma can experience disruptions in the following areas in addition to the regular symptoms of PTSD. My observations, however, convince me that ongoing extremes of verbal and/or emotional abuse also cause it.” According to trauma therapist Pete Walker, “The genesis of complex PTSD is most often associated with extended periods of ongoing physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood. Yet complex trauma isn’t just caused by physical abuse traumas such as severe verbal and emotional abuse in childhood has the potential to wreak havoc on one’s sense of self and navigation in the world, even going so far as to rewiring the brain (Van der Kolk, 2015). The complex trauma survivor’s life history is layered with chronic trauma as a result of ongoing stressors such as long-term domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse and physical abuse – situations where the individual is held “captive” whether emotionally or physically, feels under the complete control of a perpetrator or multiple perpetrators and a perceived inability to escape the threatening situation. Even when one wound is excavated, addressed and healed, another trauma that wound was connected to will inevitably unravel in the process. These childhood wounds create the foundation of deep-seated toxic shame and self-sabotage for the survivor each “tiny terror” or larger trauma in adulthood builds upon it, brick by brick, creating an ingrained framework for self-destruction. The most recent traumas build on earlier ones, reinforcing ancient wounds, maladaptive belief systems and fear-based physiological responses. Imagine, if you will, multiple chains of traumas, all of which are connected in some way to each other. Survivors of complex trauma endure trauma not only in childhood, but often in adulthood as well. Complex trauma is compounded trauma and can result in symptoms of Complex PTSD.