An illustrated 500 Ft View of the Road to Recovery from C-PTSD at Work. Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder arises from ongoing exposure to interpersonal stress. The evidence of C-PTSD can be touched and analysed in the brain and body like a stroke leaves a lesion on the brain. For those using work as the addiction, C-PTSD (usually undiagnosed) can leave us in various degrees of Highly Functioning, Secretly in Despair. The path out of the proverbial void, looks like this...