I've been making a lot of threads lately.
This post may be very triggering, so please be careful!!

Anyway, I brought this up with someone last night, I told them that even though I am diagnosed with PTSD, it doesn't feel like my "trauma" is nearly as bad as someone else's with PTSD. For example, I was never beaten, I was never forced to kill anyone in the military, I was never shot at, or stabbed or anything like that. Comparing my trauma to all of that, my trauma was just small.

I also read online somewhere someone who posted about PTSD, and they basically said that people who have been raped or sexually abused should not be diagnosed with PTSD because the trauma is something they can easily get over. I mean, I disagree, but at the same time I feel like the sexual abuse/rape is something I should have gotten over years ago. I thought I did but I guess I really didn't.

I know everyone recovers at their own pace... but does every person who survives trauma automatically have PTSD? Is it possible that I do not have PTSD and I'm just struggling through the after effects of the abuse?