Crystalrose, PTSD is an anxiety disorder. So you might find it helpful to search out how to help limit your anxiety reactions. PTSD requires the element of death, dying, fear of dying etc. Therapists don't usually bantee diagnosis about, and I hope the T wouldn't have shared a label with you without having reason to...but some of us prefer not to use labels as it can cause great stress for some, as you see.

You are who you are, and suffer how you suffer, no matter what anyone calls it...a label doesn't change the experience for you.

(Maybe instead of complex ptsd it should be called complex anxiety disorder.)