An interesting poll question. Thank you, Batgirl.

I chose the last option.

To be honest, it never occurred to me that I could be a "PTSD survivor." But I don't call myself a sufferer, either, although I do suffer tremendously at times and at least a little bit all my other days. The symptoms, the effects, the dis-ease remains, though their intensity waxes and wanes continuously. But to call myself a sufferer to others? Somehow it doesn't feel appropriate to me. It's not how I want to identify myself to others--or even to myself.

I call myself a child abuse survivor, and incest survivor, with no problem. But to me, that is different. I am no longer a child, and that abuse is no longer occurring. However, the effects of that abuse--the PTSD, the dissociation, the distrust of people and intimacy, etc.--remain with me. So how can I be a "survivor" of something that still exists? When it continues to be in every moment of now?

I suffer PTSD now. I usually say "I have PTSD" to others when the matter is brought up. I feel comfortable saying that. I would not feel comfortable saying "I am a PTSD survivor" because it is untrue. It is inaccurate. I live with PTSD. I like your analogy of the schizophrenic, Batgirl. I feel the same situation applies to me.