Marilyn, complex PTSD is a label given to those only who have endured generally a type of trauma as childhood abuse which spanned nearly the entire childhood, or say someone who was in an abusive relationship for 5 years, and suffered beatings, etc for that entire time.

PTSD itself is not really complex though, and I must disagree in that aspect. Physicians often complicate something that is actually quite easy to fix for the most part, they just don't understand it to fix it, or heal it for a better word. Why? Because they don't suffer it, they only take guesses at what actually occurs from what people tell them, which isn't a great deal if you read this place and the amount of people who DO NOT tell their therapists or physicians the full story of what they endure.

Two fold effect IMHO though...