Is It A Full Moon For Stupid Ptsd Diagnoses?

[sun seeker]

Sometimes we don't know the whole story. People can present with an on-the-surface story about what is going on for them that is easy to dismiss, but when you ask for more, there is lots more that they weren't saying. There was someone recently who introduced themselves and described something that sounded like body dysmorphic disorder, but on further questioning they had survived some pretty extreme childhood abuse. I'd say proceed with an open mind.

 

[Friday]

Feces falling? Confounded corprolytes! Sounds like a serious shit storm.

I missed that one.

 

[The Albatross]

Molly coddling kept me in denial and stuck... consequences from my own errors make me stand up, take notice, and act to initiate change or look for other issues that may have been root causes than the stuff (non-Criterion A) that people attribute PTSD with. And yeah, it makes it harder to deal with or bust misconceptions because they are getting rather prolific in certain circles.

 

[The Albatross]

Infidelity is a big sore one for me when people claim it. It wasn't my first husband's infidelity that was traumatic. It was that on discovery he beat me unconscious and bloody and left for three days with no transportation and access to money in a place where I didn't know anybody and he went and got a loaded shot gun and it went off in the hallway as he was coming back to me to shoot me because HE was f'ing around.... that was traumatic.

Sometimes, I think there should be different words for trauma, adversity... and that people throw it around too much. Heck at one point even we here were calling stuff "Big T" and "Little t" traumas.

 

[Owl.]

As if there aren't enough other diagnoses on the trauma-spectrum that could easily apply to cases like that ('cept maybe the one with the sh*t. I mean....you wot, mate?:cautious:)

If some people are so very eager to have PTSD, they are very welcome to mine.
Always knew it wasn't any of the things the docs claim I got this from. It was that one time I had to act in the school play with a hangnail and forgot my lines because of the pain.

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That said: Of course any non-Crit-A thing can trigger underlying issues. Delayed-onset is a thing for a reason. However, the underlying issues would then have to be the stuff the diagnosis is based on, which would make each and every one of those examples a whole 'nother tune I'm sure @anthony would never question at all. The way it is, though...yeah. Nope.

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...sh*t on.
Seriously. :shifty:

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

Well, now I can't get this image out of my mind... #3 but a pile so huge that the person almost dies under it and they need to use avalanche rescue techniques...?

I've had this happen to me, but as it turned out, the avalanche of veces was the PTSD :P

 

[shimmerz]

Think of cyber bullying, stalking, death threats, leaked nudes and continued harassment, things like that, and you easily have how that can be traumatic for people.

You don't think that media uses headlines like 'PTSD from Twitter' just so people can laugh about PTSD? It is irresponsible.

And it is not helpful to us. Why don't they report on the cyberbullying, stalking etc ^^^ and take PTSD seriously? Stop reporting on vets blowing people away and start showing how PTSD really does affect us.

 

[Lucycat]

Diagnosed with PTSD due to being given the wrong medication.

I don't know the story - but I think I could see how this could be legitimate. People given the wrong medication ( accidentally/ deliberately?) who are severely allergic to it could have a life threatening reaction and potentially months recovering in intensive care (from multiple organ failure).

I know of a lady, she was my neighbour some years ago, who begged her doctor not to give her penicillin as she believed she was allergic to it. He 'knew best' and insisted this was what was needed for her very severe infection. It was given intravenously - and yes she ended up in ITU. She survived but it was a close call. Now, she was never diagnosed with PTSD, but I can see how it could meet the 'life threatening' criteria, and as she was already physically disabled she was entirely at the will of the doctor. She could not physically stop him and she had already refused consent but he continued regardless. I guess it would be considered assault.

 

[Friday]

@Lucycat LMAO... I sometimes amuse myself by thinking of the gnarly stubbed toe that would qualify under CritA (similar to 'The Bricklayer's Song' if you're familiar with it :D )

But like @The Albatross 's too bad he didn't shoot himself in the hallway exHusband (sorry Alba, that's not very nice of me)... In those cases it isn't actually the stubbed toe that qualifies. Not his betrayal, or her meds. It's the other events. It wouldn't be the penicillin (which would CritH her out) but the fight for her life, for real, in the ICU... Yes?

Focusing on the penicillin, the infidelity, or the stubbed toe... Isn't helpful to dealing with the actual trauma. In a way, it's almost pure avoidance of trauma. Clinging to "it was because I was drunk" instead of "I was raped", or "he betrayed me" instead of "and then tried to kill me", or whatever the nice shiny distracting thing is? Doesn't help anyone.

Criterion H: exclusion
Disturbance is not due to medication, substance use, or other illness.

 

[Tanishq]

@Cashew Your explanation makes sense.

I apologize for this. I hope I didn't offend anyone, this is my mistake not having awareness about twitter.

:oops: :sorry:

 

[Ronin]

You don't think that media uses headlines like 'PTSD from Twitter' just so people can laugh about PTSD? It is irresponsible.

A section of media is pretty much paid for misinformation. For anything in the world. That's on the media IMO. Not on people who are struggling and as was pointed out, there may be so much more going on.

Why don't they report on the cyberbullying, stalking etc ^^^ and take PTSD seriously? Stop reporting on vets blowing people away and start showing how PTSD really does affect us.

Maybe because of similar fears of not being believed / dismissed & own denial and other such causes others of us are facing with mental illnesses? Because the drama might drag on and it's not what they're interested in? Because of reporting issues in their respective states? Because of not knowing what's going on in those terms? Et cetera.

I had no terminology for stalking being a thing for a... phew, most of my life practically. To me it was 'those gals and guys coming wherever I was and wrecking people dear to me / beating me up unless I did it first / destroying my property I couldn't afford new which they well knew / similar'. Discovering terms for so many things taken seriously as a crime was a newsflash as communities I was with simply didn't view it the same / considered it a revenge and personal thing people just suck up and deal with and either wind up dead or not from. Didn't change the impact it had.

I'm not saying things aren't different scope. I'm though very much saying misinformation isn't entirely on the misinformed people, and maybe, just maybe, they deserve help and adequate clue by fours instead of mocking.

... That said, that shat on one I'm still laughing about.

 

[Fadeaway]

I think it is possible to have PTSD "symptoms" after a non life threatening event, but unlike for us, theirs goes away within a short time frame. The key word here is symptoms.

Sometimes, I think there should be different words for trauma, adversity... and that people throw it around too much. Heck at one point even we here were calling stuff "Big T" and "Little t" traumas.

Agreed. And honestly, while I probably let peoples misuse of the word trauma bother me more than it should, there isn't really a word for life challenges can effect you emotionally but aren't traumatic. So to be fair, they are using the word that best describes their experience. People caliming that a broken fingernail was traumatic, well... those people.. yeah, I am not going to waste me time

@Radise You made me laugh. ty for that.