>>73561931Most people with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) have CPTSD basically. the trauma you went through as a child warped your mind to the point where it broke, and you developed the borderline personality disorder.
PTSD is your body's response to a traumatic event. Complex PTSD is.. complex. It can be a lot of things, but the biggest thing is childhood trauma. Repeated trauma warps the mind and alters the brain. it's like how if you always bend a young tree sideways it will just grow that way.
As the chart shows, C-PTSD includes everything PTSD has (start on the left). C-PTSD also includes lifelong issues forming relationships with people. For "just" C-PTSD, it's almost always avoidance and isolation.
Borderlines have a further destroyed sense of self, and can rarely tolerate being alone. They will constantly seek out other people to validate their existence, and leech off of them like succubi. But they fear they will be abandoned (like they felt as a child) so will often self-sabotage relationships. All of the cluster B personality disorders are similar
