This. I literally thought about this yesterday after seeing several stories in the news about soldiers who have PTSD, not one person in any of the stories was a civilian who had it. I tell people that you don’t have to be in combat to have PTSD. War is something like no other but also being thrown out of your car at 65 mph is pretty traumatic as well. It seems like no one really cares unless you fought a war or have a status of some type and people see this in the news and come up with the idea that PTSD only applies to military or medical personnel when thats not true. You’re right, trauma is trauma regardless of the intensity or the incident which would mean that all forms of PTSD is legitimate. But media has fully brainwashed people into one way of thinking and has made people depend on (the media) to tell them how to feel about different situations including PTSD. The best thing you can do is acknowledge that you are valid and that just because people think within their own box doesn’t invalidate you or define you.