Ya ever been raped, blown up, participated in a firefight, had a car accident or severely beaten as a child?
I was severely beaten and raped as child while having accident in car on fire. Couple times.
Why do you ask. Did you?
OK, I did have been in few "traumatic" events during my lifetime. Nothing too severe, but any of them probably enough for western doc to diagnose me with PTSD if I get to emotional and open in front of him. Which is as I said BS. I'm not any crazier after those events than I was before them.
Yes I'm getting your point. Maybe sentence you quoted doesn't represent best my opinion on PTSD. (You can read my earlier posts). I do believe that exist all i'm saying that it's heavily overdiagnosed especaly in US-UK.
Of course if you get raped as kid that would stay with you whole live. Scar you for life if you wish. But, scars heal with time and people have to learn how to leave whit them. Man, live is usually hard on its own so what shit like that happens became harder, but nothing healthy strong minded person can't deal with. Nothing to disable your normal functioning and social relationship for ever. Some people handle it better than others. Those who can't function normally years after event probably already had some disorders that they didn't knew about. Or its simply just easier to self-medicate with alcohol or pills (maybe combo
) and blame all your lack of discipline, self control and fact that those things feel good and also are addictive, on PTSD.
And then we have those fake or enforced PTSDs (BS as I call them) and other similar disorders. (They make new ones every year.) By "enforced" I think of those cases which are imposed by "woke" society, crazy psychiatrists and farmaco mafia. If you are interested am willing to go deeper into subject on how let say US marines get misdiagnosed with PTSD. Many of them never saw day of fight are being in real danger.
This is interesting point of view on subject: (not agreeing with everything he said, but he have some interesting points)