Seesaw-millions of children experience trauma and as adults many would fit into a personality disorder diagnosis. Not all get labeled for various reasons; and a good number of mental health workers purposely do not use these labels to avoid branding a person, but many do. That less than 100%/not everyone has experienced trauma is not the point of the post. I am referring to the label that applies to most.

The label does matter. I hear mental health workers (know several personally) use the labels in a very derogatory tone. The person is objectified and viewed through the label. Instead of seeing a person for who they are--both positive and negative, the mental health worker's projections are incorrectly attributed to the client. The outcome of that can be very damaging.

ps not CPTSD but Developmental Trauma Disorder