Even if it is theoretically possible to overcome it, I don't think that it can be assumed that it's the case for most people, and/or that they wouldn't have preferred death.

Not minimising what you went through, but the specific kind of abuse I was targeting messes up a gigantic amount of things in the brain. You end up being fucked up on so many points that more often than not, it's not possible to recover from.

I've known people struggle for years and years before just dying, and others struggle for decades with problems seeming to get worse rather than better.

Nowadays people try to make it look like it's just one trauma amongst others, but for a lot (most?) of the victims, it's a source of endless suffering and often makes their lives much worse than if they died instead.

And you're not rambling, we're just having a conversation, no worries. This is the internet, if I don't want to read no one forces me to