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[joeylittle]

it's good to know that the awful stuff I went through, though traumatic to me, doesn't qualify as "trauma."

Thank you for grasping the difference.

 

[bell]

Also, @Polly Sue on a different post I noted that you may be seeking a PTSD diagnosis as validation that what happened to you was "that bad."

If this true, you also need to work on your feelings around the rejection of what happened to you as something real, too. Because from the sound of it, you will always question what is "that bad" and what isn't, which will complicate your healing.