Your point is very relevant, and well raised. Some people do need to know what they have because of what they have endured. Correct. Its only when people become focused on that label, being more my point, when it becomes a problem during the healing process, ie. I have CPTSD so I have an excuse to be in self sympathy over this person who only has acute PTSD. I have seen it many times already, hence why I personally don't encourage it. Yes, nice to know what you have for the reasons, but I always encourage people to only keep that as a thought, not focus on the label itself, but instead the core of the problem being the trauma. Once we heal trauma, learning how to manage PTSD for the remainder of our lives becomes much easier to achieve. It took me a couple of years learning how to manage PTSD, much longer than healing the trauma itself. Though mine is from military, not staged over 10 years off ongoing abuse either. This is why I will say to people, regardless of label, there is no time limit on healing trauma, and it takes as long as it takes uniquely for each individual. We are all unique, thus we all will vary and no blanket can be applied too us.

I have seen people here come out of healing CPTSD in 4 - 5 months, then there are some who are still fighting the healing process after one year. Some get to managing PTSD sooner than others, but its all relative to us uniquely and our trauma.