[justkeepfighting]

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.

[ChavInAHat]

The point is not who had it worse- the point is how you feel and how it affects you.



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[RachelLyn915]

I was diagnosed with PTSD because I watched my dad and fiance suffer and die from health issues. I didn't experience them myself but it was traumatic for me to see it so its PTSD.I would think the same would go for you.You were close to it, it caused you trauma.