One event broke you? That's PTSD. Your childhood broke you? That's Complex PTSD. CPTSD isn't a louder version. It's a different architecture. It rewired your development. Your sense of self. Your attachment systems. Your worldview. This is trauma that shaped who you became. Both deserve healing. Know which you're treating. Start with understanding. This is the part we don't talk about enough. The part where you realize your survival strategies have become your prison. The patterns that kept you safe then are keeping you trapped now. You're still responding to threats that don't exist anymore. Still protecting yourself from dangers that passed years ago. Your nervous system doesn't know the war is over. It's still scanning for enemy fire. Still sleeping with one eye open. Still ready to run, fight, or freeze at a moment's notice. And it's exhausting you. Draining your energy. Keeping you from the peace you think you should have earned by now. But here's what nobody tells you: heali...