Brad Schipke explains the difference between PTSD and CPTSD. CPTSD comes from prolonged trauma like childhood abuse or extended combat, creating more unprocessed memories and higher intensity symptoms. Both are healable through trauma-processing skills and consistent practice over many hours.
How to know if you have CPTSD or PTSD. CPTSD and PTSD are very, very similar. The basic difference is that people who have CPTSD have gone through a long-term prolonged trauma. So you can think of somebody who's gone through a lot of abuse in their childhood, somebody who was in the military who might have been on the front lines for years. That is a lot of trauma over a long period of time that could cause CPTSD. But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if you have PTSD or CPTSD because you can heal both of them. The only real difference is that the intensity of the trauma is higher, so there's more raw, unprocessed memories in your long-term memory need to be processed. And the most important thing is to focus on learning the skills on how to actually process the trauma, and then 2, putting in the actual time and the hours to heal it, because it takes a lot of time to heal.
