Episode #208: "C-PTSD”

Live From America Podcast

This Week's Guests: PTSD/Trauma Expert and Therapist - Johanna Draconis Comedian - Keren Margolis The World's Famous comedy Cellar presents "Live From America Podcast" with Noam Dworman and Hatem Gabr. The top experts and thinkers of the world and the best comics in the Nation get together weekly with our hosts to discuss different topics each week, News, Culture, Politics, comedy & and more with an equal parts of knowledge and comedy! About Johanna, she say: My name is Johanna and I suffered severe daily abuse from basically the start until I was roughly 16 years old. The other abuse continued, but in my original offset I just focused on the daily abuse I suffered. I since then discovered that many different overlaying traumas and the sleeper traumas. I made a list of my traumas, but if I counted correctly, I had 3 C-PTSD s (incl. one Post Torture Syndrome, but changed to C-PTSD) and 7 PTSD s. There might be more added with time and some debate regarding if it belong in the first or second category. I was a typical good girl, with good grades, which did her Abitur and then went to go study Biology and later on Psychology. I was in the first half of my twenties, when my main C-PTSD broke out. First I got an emergency appointment in the clinic of my university, but soon I realized, I would die if I stayed. I had to leave my studies and after that fought for my life. I was desperately trying to get help, but either they disappeared or were not available. All my calls for help went unanswered or returned with insults. I noticed my state getting worse and worse until I realized that I was literally dying and no one was going to help me. That is when I started to doing my own research with scientific papers, as I had learned in my studies where to find, how to read them and had good base sources. The main goal was to reduce my suffering, as the pain was barely bearable and I am used to a LOT of pain. It felt like I was being ripped apart and eaten alive, but somehow still being alive. I learned enough and tackled my first trigger, after a while I succeeded and I realized what I was doing was working. I kept researching and educating myself. Still I never thought I actually could remove the trauma completely, as no one thought it possible. But I could. I learned since a lot, not just about PTSD, but also torture, narcissism, manipulation, etc. Follow Live From America YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2fqgw61yK1J6iKNxV0LmA Twitter twitter.com/AmericasPodcast www.LiveFromAmericaPodcast.com [e-mail] Follow Hatem Twitter twitter.com/HatemNYC Instagram www.instagram.com/hatemnyc/ Follow Noam Twitter twitter.com/noamdworman?lang #CPTSD #Trauma #JohannaDraconis