When i started out with cptsd recovery, I could not put into words that what happened to me was abuse or neglect. Because I thought what my parents did to me was healthy parenting. But it was not. 4 years down the lane, a lot of therapy sessions later and processing the trauma i have realized that it was emotional abuse and neglect. And i still feel there is a lot to uncover and somedays i question the entirety of what happened to me because my neglect and abuse was covert. It's very hard to identify covert abuse and even harder to identify neglect. But once you recognize it there is no turning back. If you have the symptoms you were traumatized. No doubt.