The harm that comes from trying to raise the prestige of people with early childhood trauma by renaming developmental.trauma disorders."PTSD" is that the issues of PTSD are very different from the issues of devwlopmental trauma and the treatment os very different as well.

PTSD as describes ny the DSM is not nearly as "delelicate" as developmental trauma. We are all extremely delicate in childhood as we are developing. Anything that disrupts out development leaves spaces of interrupted development, tender spaces, where we are still at levels or childhood development. I have seen this very clearly in a fifty year old accountant (very high functioning, professionals) who had literall infantiles rages. He also had toddler rages. These are fearsome to see. All mothers have seen leas emergent forma of this rage in tiny bodies.

I think confusing developmental trauma with ptsd runs ptsd out of the Forum. In the real world that confusion runs us out of treatment. When I was suicidal a lot of the drama I faced was that everytime I met a new hospital staff or ER doctor I had to wait around for them to figure out on their own that I have ptsd, not developmental trauma someone called ptsd so I wouldn't feel defective. They could easily see The difference in time but that meant as I was seriouslyusly unstable I had to wait adound for docs to sort out what I wasn't that always announces it is ptsd from what was, which happensd to be ptsd.

Definitional drift has made everything ptsd now. This raises the perceived prestige and honor of people who felt insulted by being dxed with narcissistic disorder in hospital...but what does it do to the people who are just plain ptsd? It gets Is viewed as borderlines and narcissists get viewed, which has never been fair to them but isn't made better by tarnishing ptsd with their reputation.

The adult refugees I taught deserved to have their ptsd addressed without belittled by being treated like people with personality disorders or other developmental deficits. But then we would have to admit that our warring harms innocents. Better to redefine ptsd as bad parenting.