When people talk about PTSD they can be referring to

1. Personality disorders, which are caused by early childhood trauma which interferes with attachments and interferes with childhood development.

2. Post traumatic stress, which is when a healthy person gets stuck in a physiological state of arousal that is normal, natural and healthy for threat to life, but injurious to the body-mind when it is prolonged.

There are stages of post traumatic stress. The body cant maintain high arousal forever. It has to come down. If it can discharge Its high arousal it can come down naturally. If it cant discharge it Naturally it does Its homeostasis thing to protect itself as it buena out Its glands through overuse.

People seem to prefer that childhood injury be called ptsd instead of personality disorder because some uneducated insensitive folks have a shif attitude toward borderline and narcissism and the others. Personality disorders CAN be cured/healed with patience and good therapy. They are not shameful conditions. Probably most of our beloved poets and artists and entertainers and historical figures had them and toughed out the symptoms or made their families suffer. The Lincolns and Kennedys were dysfunctional families. Now we can all heal those wounds and evolve so new generations arent burdened like we were.

The only reason I get shrill about ptsd not being c-ptsd is it confuses treatment. People go into the wrong treatment and dont get better.