You can understand your patterns and still feel stuck. This article explains the difference between complex trauma and depression, and why treatment may not be working.

Estimates from the literature indicate approximately 30%–50% of individuals with PTSD have depression. A 2022 study of adults presenting with clinically significant depressive symptoms found that 62.68% actually met criteria for PTSD or Complex PTSD; and of those, 57.1% had Complex PTSD specifically. Yet even among those who met full CPTSD criteria, fewer than half had ever received that diagnosis.

That means the majority of people walking into a provider's office with depression symptoms may actually be carrying unresolved trauma, and receiving treatment that doesn't reach the root of what's...