Interesting unhappyguy, I wondered about that too. But not everyone that struggles with PTSD have "bad" childhoods where they suffered abuse. I also read that someone is "more likely" to develope PTSD if they have a "smaller" hypocampus.

I can't go by myself because I can now definitely see that I was more susceptable to having PTSD because of my troubled history/childhood. I think that I just suddenly lost too much that was significant and important to me on a very personal level, and it was enough to put me over the edge to where I suffered full blown PTSD.

I do think there is regular PTSD which can be caused by trama and then there is complex PTSD which can perhaps start with a trama and be complicated by a tramatic childhood, or a childhood that consisted of several tramatic events.

However my therapist had talked about those that have experienced trama in childhood that continue on with their lives and don't struggle with PTSD flareups. Then years later have something trigger them into experiencing full blown PTSD. For example, a woman who was sexually abused as a child, gets on with her life with relatively few challenges, then her child gets to the age of when she was abused and that can suddenly trigger her into experiencing PTSD. Or a man that served in the service, came home and managed to reajust back into civilian life with no problems, have a family and a career but goes to a reuninion and sees pictures and film footage and talks with other vets, then a few days later presents with PTSD symptoms.

Why that happens is not known right now, only that it does happen.

Open Eyes