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Today I've had experience where I feel like I'm partly living in my past and partly in the present.
Part of me feels afraid of some things, while another part feels everything is o.k.
It's hard. I feel ungrounded and I get easily overwhelmed.
Has anyone else had this experience?

I just found this forum. I was diagnosed with CPTSD 1.5 years ago. I always knew something was wrong with me, like unable to get close to anyone and feeling always detached emotionally from everything and everyone.

I grew up in a household with alcohol, drugs, physical violence and a narcissistic mother who was and still is very controlling and emotionally manipulative. (I no longer talk to her.)
I was looking for a group to join to have a support group since there are no PTSD groups in the small city I live in.

I just found this online group myself and I can totally relate when you say --
"I'd recognized a number of symptoms in recent years as something being "wrong" with me, but never had any idea that those things could fit into a known diagnosis and be treated.  .... I learned that other things I've done for as long as I can remember are also symptoms of c-ptsd; that was a little odd... to realize things I thought just made me me are actually not normal/healthy. "

Glad you are on a fast track to healing

I was diagnosed with CPTSD 1.5 years ago.