Hi Anthony - I agree. As you know, I was diagnosed with CPTSD but what matters is what's at the core of it. The label was important to me alone (my psych explained what you have in your post but saw that it was important for me to be able to move forward) and, in that sense, it is valuable to the patient because - for the majority of us - we need to know what we're carrying around and from that we can then work with something more 'tangible' - it has a face.

You've made an important point in your last sentence but please - don't take the power of knowing what it is from those of us who need to know what we're dealing with - what the clinical manifestation of "how we got it" is.