General Justifying Disgnosis

[NoWhereKnowWhere]

f*ck she should tell the military the millions they're spending on PTSD research is better sent some place else.

PTSD cost the military soooo much money if it was as easy as that don't you think they would ask when you're about to sign up hey how was your childhood? Oh it was bad ok... NOPE no service for you.

For having PTSD and being in the military she really is an ignorant f*ck.

 

[Sandstone]

Looking at it from her viewpoint I understand the jealousy. I look at some the programmes set up here for people with military related PTSD and I am jealous. As someone unable to work because of PTSD I envy their pensions. I even envy the relative simplicity of being able to say "I got PTSD from my military career" instead of having to use the A word or the R word.

What I don't understand is the cretinous stupidity and above all the total lack of self awareness, to think that attacking and criticising another sufferer is any way useful to her or to him. I don't want to have this condition, and I don't want anyone else to have it. But I accept that others do suffer, from different causes, and that working co-operatively or just shutting up, are the only useful ways ahead.

 

[EmmaOwl]

the military the millions they're spending on PTSD research

This is a good point. When it's research that the U.S. military wants.. they get the funding and they do it. Then perhaps that research will trickle down and help others w/PTSD. It might be slow but they are working at it.

My current psychiatrist had been working at an army base when they were starting to use prazosin and propranolol for PTSD sufferers, and I know that has benefited a number of people here.

 

[EmmaOwl]

@Sandstone I get you here. Sometimes I feel like I have two traumas to "choose" from, when explaining to others. I'd like people to know that I already had PTSD in the first place, from being a young child.... I feel like that makes it more understandable, my reaction later on in my life.

I know it's irrational, and I should not need to justify any part of my illness - but I still feel that I do. And as much as I would like people to understand this, that I was sick to begin with... I still so much prefer keeping that part to myself. There's some really bad stigma and shame and guilt going on, with this. :( I'm sorry you suffer because of this. Perhaps things will change, in society, so that abuse & such will not feel so shameful to declare.

 

[joeylittle]

She kept saying that it's not the Army that gives people PTSD - it's a lack of proper nurturing as a small child which means they don't learn the necessary "coping skills" and that he would have "cracked" no matter what career he chose.

The f*ck?

Nope-ity nope nope nope. Nope. Just, no. :grumpy:

 

[Friday]

Car crashes don't give PTSD.
Rape doesn't give people PTSD.
Domestic violence doesn't give people PTSD.
Combat doesn't give people PTSD.

That whole "trauma" thing in general? Pfft. CLEARLY bullshit.

It's the lack of nurturing & not learning proper coping skills as a child. After all, of we'd been stamp collectors instead of fighters, as it doesn't matter the career we choose, one nasty papercut and... Bam! Broken.

:hilarious:

 

[EmmaOwl]

Car crashes don't give PTSD.
Rape doesn't give people PTSD.
Domestic violence doesn't give people PTSD....

Me, I just enjoy having nightmares 364 days a year (if I'm lucky).