Blythey

Not the OP but am a psychologist. Meditation should not be used as the entire treatment for PTSD, but could be used as part of a first "stabilisation" phase in Trauma Focused CBT intervention. As meditation is about being non-judgemental, aware of your mind and body, and present in the now, there are lots of other ways you could work on these skills, e.g. self-compassion building and/or general mindfulness techniques that are less meditative (maybe more grounding based). But i think if anyone is at the point where meditation is triggering for them (assuming this is not an obvious trigger directly related to their trauma) they should seek some professional PTSD treatment as that sounds very hard to be managing alone!

I see. I am a psychologist, and not in America (I'm aware things are quite different there), but here we are trained to be very critical of diagnosis when applied to mental health conditions, personality "disorders" especially so. But it seems you are not?

It is interesting to me that you sought diagnosis after becoming qualified, what was the reason?