PTSD has basic set of symptoms and criteria for diagnosis, but the effects on a person and their life is unique to them and the treatment needs to be supervised by someone trianed in truama therapy.
One problem we deal with is minimizing...we think, "Oh, it was a little messed up, but someone elses had it worse than I did, so it means less." WRONG...this is just another way to repress the emotions and not really deal with it.
I keep hearing from my T ( lately...because of a breakthrough in memories) how reall truely aweful my childhood was. I had to lose my rose colored glasses and see the true ugliness, in order to feel the pain and start dealing with it...I am only beginning to heal the wounds and I have been in and out of therapy ( mostly the wrong type) since I was 18...I am now 46. But I have a wonderful T now who is well educated and knowledgable reguarding trauma therapy. We are making great progress...alot of hard tearful anger filled work, but making progress, finally!!
Good luck and I hope you find a great T and do not waste the time I did.