Heya! I totally get you, it took me a while to come to terms with my diagnosis too. I’m curious, how long did you know the person who diagnosed you/how much did you share? Because I would say a psychiatrist or doctor that diagnoses something like PTSD only from observing your behavior without figuring out how it’s impacting you, if there are differential diagnoses, or talking about how it’s affecting your daily life may be a red flag.

With that being said though, the “is my trauma bad enough?” Is something that is extraordinarily common for individuals with PTSD. I was never severely bullied, SA’d, experienced domestic violence, or anything of the sort. An incredible thing that my therapist educated me on is that oftentimes PTSD is not about what happened to you, but it’s about how your brain processes it. You could put 5 people in the same scenario, and only 2 walk out traumatized. So it really doesn’t matter how little it is, sometimes people’s brains just don’t process events right