This might be a stupid question but I struggle with this a lot. I never experienced any traumatic event first hand. However, when I was a child someone very close to me (pretty much considered family) murdered someone else. I also spend many years growing up in fear that that person might one day come for me when released from jail or find a way to have someone else get to me. When I started therapy a few months ago my therapist said that I scored just below what I needed to be diagnosed with PTSD when she tested me for it. So I did not go through a trauma myself and I don't actually have PTSD even though I experience may of the symptoms. That's why I feel a bit like a fraud whenever I talk about my trauma because compared to what many people had to go through I really didn't experience anything too bad. I guess I don't really have a question I just wanted to get this off my chest.