You know bec.... that is spooky, because here I have been for the last couple of days now wanting to emphasize the difference to people, in that one is not actually worst than another, but instead it is more a labelling system to determine other factors.

For example, acute and chronic is merely a label put upon time having the symptoms after the traumatic event. Lets face reality here, not many will face the full symptomatic effects of PTSD one month, or even three months, immediately after an event, instead maybe a residual quantity of symptoms could be present, but PTSD itself is something that more manifests over time, not whack, here I am.

Then we have that complex one, where the only difference is that complex is used if other diagnosis are given in conjunction with PTSD itself, ie. you have PTSD, panic disorder and GAD! The funny thing is, is that an expert in trauma once told me, that anyone who has PTSD for more than a year undiagnoses, should actually have complex each and every time, because it is merely just labelling the individual symptoms.

I remember when I was diagnosed, my doctor said to me that he could label me with severe depression, panic disorder, blah blah and PTSD, but then he said to me, that realistically a sufferer should already have most of these factors as part of their PTSD, and not realistically seperately should they be labelled, because it gives people a worst complex of their condition, and instead they should just be told they have severe PTSD. Mind you, he didn't tell me this until I poked around for it some time later during the course of events.

I guess this is why I call PTSD, PTSD, and not acute, chronic or complex, because those labels really have bugger all to do with anything, except give the sufferer a complex mentally processing that their PTSD is worse than someone else's because of this label attached, when in fact their PTSD is the same as pretty much everyone else, except the label refers to circumstances of time or other diagnosis instead.

This community confirms that for me each time someone pops up with complex PTSD and they think they are worse than say someone with severe PTSD...

People do need to learn that the label does not change the severity of symptoms, and all symptoms are the same. It is the difference between physicians who want to label opposed to those who do not, and merely time having symptoms and whether other disorders or illnesses are also present.