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Originally Posted by Skeezyks
When I think of PTSD versus cPTSD I think that PTSD is a response to a particular experience, where cPTSD is a response to an accumulation of experiences over time.
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That's a pretty good simple summary, Complex PTSD is PTSD but with complex causes, tangled up in a person's personal history and development rather than reducible to discrete events (although in most cases there are also discrete events that stand out).