Is PTSD a Psychiatric Disorder??

[lrs]

C.J., I agree with a lot of what you said. I, myself, believe PTSD is curable. I would be very surprised if a cure for true schizophrenia was ever found, but I can not state definitively that it will never happen.

 

[anthony]

Not quite true CJ. PTSD is actually not just a product of your environment at all; merely managing your environment and exposure to stressors helps keeps symptoms reduced. With or without this though, PTSD can and does created symptomatic recourse due to the physical change in neurological shift within the brain (the aspect making it incurable). PTSD actually presents the same in this manner as say Schizophrenia does, usually though Schizophrenia is simply more active than PTSD in the psychological aspect. Schizophrenia is simply a more progressive psychiatric disorder than PTSD is.

Both are quite deadly when uncontrolled. Schizophrenia typically just means your going to be medicated your entire life, PTSD does not as you can manage a majority of the impact it plays within your daily life through management skills. This does not mean PTSD goes anywhere though, and it still usually plays a daily part within your life. It really depends just how bad an individuals PTSD is.

 

[EmoxxKid]

;)

LOL! So is transsexuality and homosexuality.

hahaha...indeed:thumbs-up

 

[lrs]

During my first drug rehab stay, I was diagnosed as severely "schizoid". That was the term used at that time. I think they now use the term "schizo-affective". They stated that my life was identical to a person with true schizophrenia, although I was not a true schizophrenic person.
The day we discussed this, there was some of it I missed.
Even when the counselor was going over my psych evaluation, in a small group session, my mind was wandering so much, and I had flashbacks so bad, that I missed about the first 1/2 of this discussion.
I remember that something caught my ear, and sounded familiar. So my attention focused on this conversation for a couple of minutes. (That was pretty good for me at that time)
Then I said to the counselor, "that reminds me of me."
She said, "it IS you, we have been discussing the results of your psyche testing".

 

[Deleted member 487]

I feel that the DSM series is far too generalized. According to them nearly everyone is mentally ill in some form or fashion.

 

[anthony]

True CJ, very very true mate. It is like a person self evaluating; you can always find something that fits, you just have to look hard enough. It is like the diagnosis that come with PTSD, whilst we fit so many criteria and so many diagnosis, PTSD is the only accurate one that fits correctly. Anything else is a lesser, which means you wouldn't likely have PTSD or the doctor just wants to prescribe more drugs.

It really is words, and the only thing I could say to people personally is to use their own commonsense and call it what they want and how they want. Some people work with facts, some work with fantasy, some like to just ignore some facts as it makes them feel better. I honestly say go with what works surrounding such insignificant type aspects; though certainly not to apply what I just said to symptoms or dealing directly with PTSD itself.