Is It Anxiety or CPTSD? The Real Root Cause of Your Mental Struggles, with Tim Fletcher

Complex PTSD from childhood relational neglect drives fawning, shame-fueled achievement, and mimics other diagnoses, but heals mainly through safe connection.

• PTSD vs CPTSD: PTSD stems from a single 'big T' shock event; CPTSD comes from ongoing 'little t' relational neglect where a child's core emotional needs go unmet.
• The fourth F, fawning: Beyond fight/flight/freeze, children who can't escape unsafe caregivers develop fawning — performing love and compliance to earn safety, which gets socially rewarded and hardest to unlearn.

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