PTSD?

Hello this is my first post and I hope this is a post that helps me out a bit.

Beginning of the fall semester (August 30th,) I was at a Fraternity. Its my second year at my college and a few roommates and myself went out to party before the the next day which was class. I was the Designated Driver as I already cant drink as I have Bi-Polar Disorder and the meds I am on, alcohol and my body chemistry do not mix well. So we party for a bit and a friend I knew said we should go to the party next door at the other frat. My group went and I went with them. Later on in the night I went to the bathroom. I was done and was coming out and I caught the end of an argument with the friend that made myself and my friends leave the the first party fighting with a tall, muscular build guy. The guy and him continue and I, my friend and a Brother from the frat show up to the aide of the friend and the guy walks off. An hour goes by and then I heard a commotion outside and I remember the following even in detail:


I remember hearing what sounded like a motor scooter starting up, multiple times. I heard a few people scream and a few guys yelling for a guy to get off of the property as they don't know what his problem is but he isn't getting in. More sounds and I begin to think something is wrong (I wasn't really paying attention till now) and I ask what is going on. Few seconds later a door to the the front area of the house opens and that guy from earlier comes into the house after kicking in the front door clad in a chainsaw in his hands. Yeah you read that right a CHAINSAW. He comes in screaming incoherently and sees the guy he was arguing with (My friend,) and revved the chainsaw running at him. I stand there near my friend and slowly move into the hallway with from the room that we were gathered in. I saw my friend's face and I remember his eyes all wide and frightened. He ran, pushing people out of the way with the crazy chainsaw guy coming after him. I was on the ground in the kitchen at this time as the guy ran by with his chainsaw still on but not revving. He got to the door and I heard him slam the door. My body went into auto-pilot and I remember seeing my good friends girlfriend in front of me to my left. I slowly made my way over to her and said her name except I wasn't doing it but my body was. She looks back as my body grabs her arm and pushes her towards the door and we make it outside.

At this time I looked to the side as I pushed her away from the Frat house and saw the guy with the chainsaw had now dropped it in the back of a truck and now there were two other guys standing with the guy all holding bats screaming at the frat brothers. I stop at this time about 300 yrds from the scene so I cant make out people but I can hear the event and I sounded really bad with all kinds of glass breaking and metal slamming off of cars. I then start to run again and catch up to my friend's girlfriend and see her with my friend whom she is dating. We kind of got into my friend's car and drove for an hour just calming down before driving to our apartment before waiting another hour and called the cops to file a report.


So my question is do I have PTSD? I've read up on it and I have talk to a counselor at my school and I now have panic attacks REALLY bad every time I heard a Chainsaw, Motor Scooter starting up, or various other things that make me feel unnerved. During our talks she thinks I have other issues and this was just the tip of the ice burg. She is open to the idea however that this may have set a lot of mental illness gears into motion as I had been repressing for many years.

WOW, That's so shocking it's kind of funny.

Well That situation certainly is Tramatic enough... For PTSD it's not like you have to SEE someone get cutt up or somthing, Just really really believing that you or your friends or everyone is going to get sliced up by a crazy chainsaw guy is enough to do it.

However, not EVERYONE who experiences a Trauma Regardless of how severe develop PTSD…Some kinds of trauma and especially prolonged trauma like wartime and child abuse tend to cause it more frequently but PTSD can develop from a mugging, rape, or an attack.

SO…
The three facets of PTSD?
1. Re-experiencing
2. Hyper arousal
3. Avoidance