Wie lange dauert es in der Regel bis eine PTBS erkannt wird?

I know a lot of people who have experienced sexual violence in childhood and still have lived a normal life, up to the point where they once again experienced or have seen similar things, or have been triggered, which triggered the “old” feelings and then trained the PTBS. PTBS usually occurs with delay and this is also one of the important criteria. Otherwise, every person would have PTBS immediately if one gets bad after a traumatic experience (which is normal and part of the management). In a car accident, it’s normal that you’re afraid to drive again and get panic. An acute stress reaction is followed by a (acute) stress disorder, followed by a post-traumatic stress disorder. At PTBS, your own head has not managed to process the experienced and remained somewhere, so to speak, so that the symptoms remain or can occur again after years (e.g. when you have experienced violence in marriage and only after years you have met a partner again and who, for example, becomes loud in a dispute and says one of the things just as traumatic as the partner at that time – what would be a trigger of the PTBS before). In very early traumatic events, e.g. as a child, it is possible that one can no longer remember it and the symptoms that occur, years later, cannot explain at all. Many then logically think that they are going crazy or experience the experience in recurring nightmares. This is always helpful to know: there is a good reason for everything and that’s why you’re not crazy. It is a normal reaction from the head to unprocessed experiences.

To your second question: dissociative states are almost like a “emergency switch” of the head and, so to speak, the salvation in the last need if everything becomes too much. This can also often be observed in nature when an animal is hunted by another animal, only tries to flee, then it tries to fight if fleeing does not work and if the situation is so hopeless that one does not come against it – it is dead. This is like a built-in program that, for example, at the time of the no longer avoidable end, you do not feel any pain, or often what happens. In the case of dissociative states, this has virtually become self-contained. But the reason is often an experience in the past, which was associated with great faintness to the situation, so that the head triggered this mechanism. One example would be bad violence in childhood – a child can often neither escape nor can it fight an adult.