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I was seeing a therapist for PTSD from childhood trauma but sometimes I wonder if I really have PTSD because my symptoms aren't that severe. I haven't processed my trauma but I am pretty stable right now and my symptoms don't bother me much. I am seeing a new therapist and I have told them that I have anxiety but I didn't tell them about the PTSD because I didn't want to talk about it with a total stranger. I feel like I have PTSD symptoms but I don't know if my symptoms are severe enough for a clinical diagnosis. I don't know whether to tell the new therapist and her team about the PTSD because I don't know if they'll even believe me and I don't want to talk about what happened. What should I do?
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"We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces."
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