I, too, have PTSD and am taking meds for it and they help a great deal. However I can be triggered by things like something I saw on tv one day. (It can also be triggered by many other things.) It sent me into a feeling of total helplessness and terror. I have undergone therapy at different points in my life. I can also get nightmares at time. I have traumas from childhood, teen years, 20s. I know I still have PTSD and I think we know when we have it and when we don't. I think you are the best judge of that. I am much older now and some people have suggested to me that I should be over the abuse and it left me feeling like they really didn't understand my illness or me.