General Adult Child Of Ptsd Sufferer

[Friday]

Do not discredit someone’s experiences simply because you do not understand how it affected them

Actually, I did the exact opposite.

The OP didn’t understand why someone who had PTSD from childhood trauma wouldn’t want to spend time with her abusers, nor have her kids/grandkids spend time with her abusers.

I have no idea what the OPs mom may have lived through, but if she has PTSD from it? It was brutal. Hence my listing the criterion for being diagnosed, and a small handful of common problems.

 

[Sweetpea76]

People seem to want to use PTSD as a measure of how bad their trauma was. It's not that. It's the type of trauma. When you think of PTSD trauma, think of something that would send somebody to the trauma center of a hospital...Sudden violence, threat of death, sexual assaults, combat, DV, etc.

When you start using PTSD as a scale to measure all kinds of trauma you just muddy the waters and spread misinformation that makes things harder for people who have legitimate cases of PTSD.