People who say things like 'not traumatic enough' don't know what they're talking about. Trauma can be a wide range of things and is especially impacting at an early age. Those things sound very traumatizing. Sorry you're feeling bad.

Those words should never be used when talking PTSD. There are no degrees or levels so as to be measured. If a psychiatrist said it we would be appalled. You went through a tremendously stressful time. My story started when I was four...only continued to get worse as the years moved on.
I wish you some peace with all of it, knowing you do not need validation for your feelings and memories, be safe. xo

If it feels teaumatic to u and effects u then it is truma in my opinion. Its anything that has a big lasting impact on you.

If it is *trauma*, it is *trauma*. And no two people are identical, even in a family, in where and how and why they break or cope or don't cope. My sister coped by becomign the abuser's ally and proxy. I coped by escaping any way I could and being, at times, a sarcastic little byotch. Bullying is abuse. I was bullied by my sister from birth onward, from what I can tell. My dad was a narcissistic SOB. Does that mean I went to war and carried a gun and got shot at? No. Did I still get screaming nightmares and scars? Yes. And if it's ongoing abuse? SOmetimes it's the cumulative effect. No, one incident of my sister's verbal abuse wasn't "trauma". Day after day after week after month after year of it, while I feared it? Yes, that's traumatic. I tried to talk myself out of that until I was 43. Denial finally failed. (Big time.)

You feel lousy. That's valid.

Welcome Niennag2
....and yes, validation on all three listed. Even individually they can be defined as trauma, traumatic.Many might get through one of the events you listed only to have another double down on the affects, in a cascading reaction.
I hope you have some source of therapy since the sooner started the better the result.

Welcome Niennag. What a great question! High fiber chew food in the Arfian Opine.

This just-a-patient subscribes to the theory that diff between PTS and PTSD is the way the trauma is processed. I still lack specialized vocabulary for it, so again I stoop to analogy to describe it. My personal favorite analogy is Gangrene. A papercut can develop gangrene if neglected and/or abused viciously enough.

Dunno. . . Just my personal fave of the theories I have heard. I am still entertaining other theories and looking for better ways to speak my understanding of this one. Works in progress. . .

Welcome aboard, Niennag. Hope ya gots more high fiber therapy chews in your bag.

I have PTSD from both kinds of trauma: from dramatic, singular events like surviving a car bombing, and from years of being the whipping boy in a dysfunctional family. I can assure you that it doesn't matter to me which is causing my PTSD symptoms on any given day. They're equally difficult.

I think it is more about what you feel and what you are going through than a label. If you have symptoms of having experienced trauma, like nightmares, flashbacks in the case of PTSD, certain things you can't stand to be around or things that make you stressed or anxious for no clear reason, then it's reasonable to believe you were traumatized. If treating your experiences like trauma and getting help from a counselor makes you feel better, that is further validation. For me, I reluctantly accepted that I'd been traumatized when a college building that I had used many times suddenly caused heart palpitations every time I tried to enter it, and I had no rational explanation for why I was afraid of that building. No amount of logical arguments could make me comfortable in there though. Eventually I came to realize that this was a reaction to a near-accident that I'd had in the building. Experiences impact people differently, and people also have varying definitions of trauma.

Once in a therapy session I mentioned how my boss had insulted my intelligence and how annoying that habit of his was. My therapist called this a trauma. I didn't see it that way. I'd gone through serious illness and neglect that inflicted serious damage and I didn't want to use the same word to describe "that" and an insensitive remark. So we settled on "Big T Trauma" and "little t trauma" to talk about them. My therapist said that she viewed any negative impact on a person as some form of trauma, even if we could brush it off. So She would probably say that you did go through a trauma.

Best of luck in your sorting and many healing thoughts. You never have to prove anything here.