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“I have witnessed many clients with Cptsd misdiagnosed with various anxiety and depressive disorders. Moreover, many are also unfairly and inaccurately labeled with bipolar, narcissistic, codependent, autistic spectrum and borderline disorders. [This is not to say that Cptsd does not sometimes co-occur with these disorders.]”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Emotional flashbacks are also accompanied by intense arousals of the fight/flight instinct, along with hyperarousal of the sympathetic nervous system, the half of the nervous system that controls arousal and activation. When fear is the dominant emotion in a flashback the person feels extremely anxious, panicky or even suicidal. When despair predominates, a sense of profound numbness, paralysis and desperation to hide may occur. A sense of feeling small, young, fragile, powerless and helpless is also commonly experienced in an emotional flashback, and all symptoms are typically overlaid with humiliating and crushing toxic shame.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Emotional flashbacks are perhaps the most noticeable and characteristic feature of Cptsd. Survivors of traumatizing abandonment are extremely susceptibility to painful emotional flashbacks, which unlike ptsd do not typically have a visual component.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“First, the good news about Cptsd. It is a learned set of responses, and a failure to complete numerous important developmental tasks. This means that it is environmentally, not genetically, caused. In other words, unlike most of the diagnoses it is confused with, it is neither inborn nor characterological. As such, it is learned. It is not inscribed in your DNA. It is a disorder caused by nurture [or rather the lack of it] not nature.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“I sometimes recommend that readers view the table of contents and start with whatever headings most strike a chord. Although the book is laid out in a somewhat linear fashion, everyone’s journey of recovering is different, and journeys can be initiated in a variety of ways.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Authentic sharing can be triggering, and sometimes flashes the survivor back to being punished or rejected for being vulnerable.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Sometimes this epiphany brings a great relieving certainty that fragile self-esteem, frequent flashbacks, and recurring reenactments of unsupportive relationships were caused by the closed hearts of your parents.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Through such neglect the child’s consciousness eventually becomes overwhelmed with the processes of drasticizing and catastrophizing.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“[Feeling”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“I believe most people, if they think about it, realize that their best friends are those with whom they have had a conflict and found a way to work through it. Once a friendship survives a hurtful misattunement, it generally means that it has moved through the fair-weather-friends stage of relationship.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Thankfully, I eventually realized that I had unresolved attachment issues, and sought out a Relational therapist who valued the use of her own vulnerable and emotionally authentic self as a tool in therapy.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Emotional abuse is also almost always also accompanied by emotional abandonment, which can most simply be described as a relentless lack of parental warmth and love.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“He did not, however, because he had long since learned that getting angry back was a capital crime that would elicit the most savage retaliation.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Most traumatizing parents are especially contemptuous towards the child’s expression of emotional pain.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Some survivors have confidence but not self-esteem.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“The critic’s black-and-white assessment is: “Either I’m cured or I’m still hopelessly defective.â€� And once you identify with your critic’s pronouncement of defectiveness, you are off and spiraling downward into a full-fledged flashback - captured once again in the ice veneer of toxic shame that freezes one in the Cptsd stranglehold of helplessness and hopelessness”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“If I am a bit repetitive at times about issues like shrinking the critic and grieving the losses of childhood, it is my attempt to find different ways to emphasize the great importance of engaging these themes of recovery work over and over again. If you find yourself lost and not sure of how to get back onto the map, these themes will always be key portals for reentry.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Remedying this developmental arrest is essential because many new psychological studies now show that persistence â€� even more than intelligence or innate talent - is the key psychological characteristic necessary for finding fulfillment in life.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Bravery is, in my opinion, defined by fear. It is taking right action despite being afraid. It is not brave to do things that are not scary.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“This is also deeply important because, as Carl Jung emphasized, our emotions tell us what is really important to us. When our emotional intelligence is restricted, we often do not know what we really want, and can consequently struggle mightily with even the smallest decisions.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Another way of saying this is that I have self-esteem to the degree that I keep my heart open to myself in all my emotional states. And, I have intimacy when my friend and I offer this type of emotional acceptance to each other. Once again, this does not condone destructive expressions of anger which are, of course, counterproductive to trust and intimacy.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“deeper psychological health is seen only when you can maintain a posture of self-love and self-respect in the times of emotional hurt that accompany life’s inevitable contingencies of loss, loneliness, confusion, uncontrollable unfairness, and accidental mistake.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“El primero, nuestros padres a menudo nos educaron de maneras que replicaron ciegamente la manera en que ellos fueron educados. Y segundo, a menudo fueron apoyados en su educación disfuncional por las normas y valores sociales de sus tiempos.”
― Pete Walker, Tep complejo: De sobrevivir a prosperar

“Neutral is especially important for flight types to cultivate.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“the TV.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“the reader”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“SOMATIC HEALING”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“Forty years ago, I was riding on a train in India travelling from Delhi to Calcutta.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

“For just as without night there is no day, without work there is no play, without hunger there is no satiation, without fear there is no courage, without tears there is no joy, and without anger, there is no real love.”
― Pete Walker, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving