Clarification On Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

[Llama]

I grew up in a small town, where people were, for the most part, small minded. I mimicked the speach I heard every day and started to believe what I heard and what I was saying. I got approval for that, because that was normal.

I joined the army and became what was normal there. Spoke the way they spoke, talked about the same things, acted the way that the guys would act. I got approval for that, because that was normal.

I left the army, met a different group of people (academics) and started learning what -their- normal was and melded myself to that. Throughout my whole life I have acted 'normal' depending on what my situation was, and that has been incredibly helpful in a lot of ways because it helped me fit in.

Now, I am trying not to overreact and trying to remain rational, but I did want to point out that the tone of your post comes across as quite condescending, the way one would talk to a young child. I just wanted to point it out because it's a trigger for me. I doubt you meant it to come across that way, but I'm oversensitive to that sort of thing.

The point I was trying to make wasn't that learning what is moral is the same as learning what is normal. To learn what morality is takes a lot more work than learning what normalcy is. My point was purely that it is entirely possible to learn normalcy from things other than a trusted person. Morality is an entirely different animal, and takes critical thinking processes to learn if you can't trust someone to teach you.

See here's the problem, not all of us can trust someone to guide us and therefore must rely on ourselves alone. I'm saying it's possible to become a 'normal and moral' person without that guidance.

 

[Tiger Kitten]

Llama,
It was not meant to be condescending at all. It was meant to put forth my point of view on the matter from my experiences. Just to clarify that. I honestly cannot see what I said that would have made it in anyway a trigger or as though I am talking to a young child, if you could point that out to me I would appreciate it I am always trying to learn better ways to communicate.

Tiger

 

[kers]

Daniel G Amen (based in the US) who specialises in brain trauma..

His work has not been supported by research. While his clinics do provide brain imagery scans, the data they provide is not clearly tied to diagnosis or treatment of mental disorders. Interpretation of the scans has not been validated by scientific research.

Scientists are working on using brain imaging to aid in the diagnosis of disorders like PTSD. Earlier this year there was a big study published that used functional MRI an an effort to distinguish between brains with and without PTSD. Other research has been using MEG imagery to try to identify PTSD. Wider research needs to be done in order to develop definitive parameters for diagnosis using scans.

 

[Llama]

Heya Tiger, I was more sensitive than usual that day, it was this one sentence in particular that set me off.

While it is true that you can observe a lot about what is normal, reacting to situations as you see everyone else doing is not necessarily a good thing.

It came across to me as condescending because it seemed to assume a lack of critical thinking on my part, which feels to me like assuming a lack of intelligence.

You didn't do anything wrong! And I'm sorry if I came across sharply in my previous post.

 

[cat]

Thanks Nicolette

Thanks for your post of 27th Dec, Nicolette, it has made the addition of complex to my diagnosis much clearer & easier to understand my 'little voices'