before I begin I just want to put a thought out .

I wonder what it would take for an infant to experience the threat of loss of life. Not bieng fed or held maybe. ?

Hi Sky,

I want to say it depends on what that one type of trauma is . But maybe not.
Maybe it in the untreatment , the lack of acknowledgement and help that one does not get that has an effect on an individual as they grow up . and interact with others.

Its real easy to see how a young girl who was brutaly raped or had her life theratened by her father might end up becoming a hooker who inturn gets abused and used and at times have her life threatened,

( Thinking about the recent Craigs list killler whos father was a

Dentist..( LOL) sorry , inside joke.. )

and does a craigs list in her own way. this one time event becomes many more and becomes CPSTD over time .

If this same child was in a fire but pulled out of the house and had a few burns but was okay . And no one talked to her about it . Life went on as usual everyone happy singing . What kind of complexity woud come from that.

This started because Crystal rose feels shame about being diagnossed with either PSTD or Complex PSTD and admidst to some emotional deregulation . Not sure she wants the diagnosis of either .

Crystal Im not sure what this shame is about or is coming from .

Sky you mentioned a label doesn't really matter as far as what a person experiences . In theory this sounds good ., But in the real world labels do lots of harm .

Patricia