Symptoms of C-PTSD include problems regulating feelings, dissociation, or depersonalization, persistent depressive feelings, seeing the perpetrator of trauma as all powerful, preoccupation with the perpetrator, and a severe change in what gives the sufferer meaning.
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term cantankerous. bloody-minded, cantankerous(adj) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate. Synonyms: bloodthirsty, ornery, crotchety, cantankerous, sanguinary, bloody-minded.
Unfortunately, as Great-Aunt Bert could be a bit cantankerous, they were having to be creative. Note: Cantankerous is generally used to describe an unpleasant elderly person in a slightly pejorative manner. However, the term can be used to people in general, livestock, and machinery as well.