I had stepped away, but as you’ve tagged me / asked me a question directly?
See what you make of this:
The same thing I make of hundreds of websites claiming PTSD without Trauma (ranging from being pressured to do well in school, to being cheated on, to being unpopular, to bereavement and profound grief/loss). That they’re twisting actual science into “if it bleeds it leads!” sensationalistic content, in order to attract the greatest number of readers, in order to profit their business, by capitalising off of desperate people in pain.
These are the same sorts of sites that, in newspaper and magazine form, drove the misdiagnosis of millions of children in the 80s with ADHD.
As Dr. Patrick Carnes wrote in The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships,
Dr. Carnes specializes in (the highly controversial field of) Sex Addiction, and relationships. The kind of trauma he’s interested in (per the foundation he created) is ANY distressing event, events, or series of patterns in one’s life that goes on to negatively effect your sexuality &/or relationships.
He’s a fantastic resource for those things.
He’s not an expert in PTSD, nor Trauma & Stressor related disorders (of which PTSD is just one of many).
Nor burn trauma, crush trauma, traumatic brain injuries, nor any other
deliberately narrowed definition of trauma specific to the diagnosis being focused on.
What we have here is disagreement between authoritative sources, i.e. experts/academics/researchers/practicing professionals.
Exactly.
If you go to trusted authoritative experts in PTSD, rather than experts in other fields who are using PTSD as an example to connect with readership? I expect you’d see things differently, very quickly.
My concern is what you both are saying is basically what a google search yields, if you look into the scholarly research..
I’ve spent over 8 years doing exactly that.
The reason that even a basic google search will yield that PTSD without Qualifying Trauma isn’t PTSD? Is because it isn’t. It’s something that shares the symptoms of PTSD. The only thing that sets PTSD aside from those myriad conditions, is the precipitating trauma.
That’s -potentially- quite good news… as
most of those things are transitory in nature.
Only potentially good news, as I said earlier, because there is no guarantee that you do not have PTSD precipitating from earlier trauma that was activated by the stress of your board, turning to alcohol to cope, and losing your family in the process.
No one here can tell you whether you have PTSD or not. Anyone who knows anything about PTSD can, however, give you the heads up that the events you describe have never -in all the decades of research looking for potential causes- been shown to cause PTSD. To make existing PTSD worse? Certainly. To cause? Fortunately, not. What you choose to do with that information? Is up to you.
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