Compounded Relational cPTSD: The Truth-Teller's Path - Paperback
Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with
Offers & Perks
Earn 9 points with this purchase
Added to your rewards balance after checkout.
100 points welcome bonus
Create an account and start with extra points.
What if your anxiety, shutdowns, and exhaustion weren't weakness - but proof of how the system keeps wounding you?
In this groundbreaking book, Compounded Relational cPTSD: The Truth-Teller's Path, author Samina Rose reframes trauma as more than personal history. She reveals how schools, workplaces, clinics, and agencies recreate the same patterns of gaslighting, dismissal, and abuse that families once did. This is structural PTSD: chronic trauma built into bureaucracy and culture.
Drawing on personal testimony, trauma research, and critical social theory, Rose offers:
A powerful new language for survivors of CPTSD, PTSD, and chronic invalidation.
Tools for boundaries and self-protection in relationships, jobs, and institutions.
Counter-narratives that turn shame into evidence and survival into resistance.
Practical steps for recovery: documenting harm, escalating complaints, and refusing erasure.
Raw, rigorous, and deeply validating, this book is a lifeline for survivors of abuse, complex trauma, and systemic betrayal. If you've ever been told you're "too sensitive," been left in "pending" limbo, or punished for speaking your truth, this book will give you the clarity, language, and courage to resist.
You are not broken. You are evidence. And truth-telling is the beginning of healing.
Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Eligible items may be returned within 30 days of delivery. Conditions apply.