Okay, I'm new around here and just have a PTSD-related question. Bear with me!

About 12 years ago some very bad stuff happened that took two years. After it was over, I had a lot of experiences and difficulties, all of which I thought were my own failings and weaknesses. I gave therapy a shot but had no luck.

A year or two ago for a completely unrelated reason I happened to be looking through a list of PTSD symptoms and, as one does, recognized that I'd experienced 15 of the 17 on the list. The two I was missing were using drugs or alcohol to treat the experiences (I lived with them without anything to put in the way) and I think flashbacks. At least, I've never experienced anything immersive (that I'm aware of) so I'm discounting it.

I've never been diagnosed with anything, ever (even for stuff like self-harming behaviors, though I've had those in the past, and a bunch of other stuff that goes before this experience).

My question for those of you who have diagnoses, or know people who are, is: does it count as anything like PTSD if I have, or have had, 15 of the 17 symptoms, and if it does, what do I do with that information?

For that matter, if it *doesn't*, but I still have/had them, what do I do about it? (Though it's been over ten years so at this point I've mostly accepted it as the new normal. And things are less ridiculous than they were, anyway. I guess I just want some kind of acknowledgment. Sorry.)