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Feb 20, 2011, 01:54 AM
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Member Since: Mar 2009
Location: So Cal
Posts: 3,342
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Hmmm.....
It seems orange is the new black!! 
I don't actually think that Developmental Trauma Disorder is different than CPTSD. I think that there has been so much hub-bub over the "label" of complex PTSD, and so much difficulty in creating an appropriate label for what children who have experienced multiple childhood traumas have experienced, that the scientific world might be saying....."Hmmm, people don't like the CPTSD things, so let's just call it something else. I know....let's call it Developmental Trauma Disorder!!"
It works for me. CPTSD or DTD, it doesn't change the fact that I feel screwed for life and have way to many issues to overcome and face for one lifetime. Changing the name of something doesn't change the etiologies or the symptoms one experiences. They could call it PIZZA if they wanted to.
So yeah, it makes sense to me that this would be possibly a better way of describing what children, and adult children, have experienced. I think it's a swell label and I think it will be more widely accepted than Complex PTSD.
Just my simple opinion. 
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