Ptsd Myths - Can You Name More?

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I guess I'm just quoting my T who says PTSD doesn't stay the same it gets better or it gets worse. The getting worse, in her mind, means you don't treat it adequately. Maybe she's referring to CPTSD. Or maybe PTSD only goes into remission until next the trigger kicks it into overdrive. I know that's how it's worked for me my whole life—and without me ever even realizing I had CPTSD... until recently. :unsure: Of course everyone's entitled to their own PTSD. ;)

 

[anthony]

PTSD isn't inherited.

Can you show proof of this from studies? Genetics and PTSD is very subjective, and I've never read data outlining that PTSD is inherited from parent to child. Anxiety and depression genes, sure... but PTSD is subject to specific trauma types, and that trauma type cannot be inherited. The actual data I've read on genetics and the predisposition for anxiety / depressive disorder gene variants is very marginal, if provable at all versus identifying statistical attributes as inherit markers.

If anything, I would believe the statement that PTSD isn't contagious, would be the one to count, as it is not biological inheritance but secondary PTSD being passed from parent to child due to abusive raising of the child. That is behavioural, not genetic.

 

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The science is beginning to reveal epigenetic changes. A few papers here:

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736070/

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/04/childhood_abuse_ptsd_epigenetics/index.html

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891396/

 

[anthony]

Dead Link Removed - This does not prove PTSD is inherited, but only what I outlined, that traits of anxiety and depression can be passed, not PTSD itself.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736070/ - Same as above. Risk factors have been well proven for anxiety and depression within genes, passing "risk" only, not actually inheriting. Saying that, even if a gene is passed and inherited, that only equates to specific aspects increasing risk to anxiety and depression, as they do not require an actual traumatic event of a specific magnitude as PTSD requires.

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/04/childhood_abuse_ptsd_epigenetics/index.html - Talks about gene activity changing slightly after being exposed to a criterion A trauma, i.e. child abuse. Also talks about using that change to then undo the issue and treat the cause (plasticity).

Dead Link Removed - Same as above, adds that plasticity of our brain and genome (becoming well researched and sequenced) can change one way, and back again.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891396/ - Same as above, even proves that PTSD isn't inherited by stating, "While there are currently no findings that suggest epigenetic modifications that are specific to PTSD or PTSD risk, many recent observations are compatible with epigenetic explanations."

PTSD is not inherited by the very proof you gave linking to those articles, especially the last one, authored by one of the leading experts in the world, Rachel Yehuda.

Rachel Yehuda, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, is the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine which includes the PTSD clinical research program and the Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Yehuda is a recognized leader in the field of traumatic stress studies. She has authored more than 250 published papers, chapters, and books in the field of traumatic stress and the neurobiology of PTSD. Her current interests include the study of risk and resilience factors, psychological and biological predictors of treatment response in PTSD, genetic and epigenetic studies of PTSD and the intergenerational transmission of trauma and PTSD. She has an active federally-funded clinical and research program that welcomes local and international students and clinicians.

I think that "PTSD isn't inherited" is still factual and not a myth.

 

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Well I know I inherited it. ;)

 

[Tanishq]

Myth - PTSD made me cheat to my partner.

This one is harder to accept you know. How PTSD interferes your capacity to make choices in your life? :confused:

 

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Well I know I inherited it. ;)

Nope. That means you would have inherited ALL diagnostic criteria. You can't inherit criterion A. (Saying someone with ptsd gave you ptsd is different as your criterion A would be different than theirs.)

 

[anthony]

Myth - PTSD made me cheat to my partner.

Nice one... evidence?

Nope. That means you would have inherited ALL diagnostic criteria.

I just couldn't be bothered with that one... I figure ignorance is the best thing at times.

 

[Tanishq]

@anthony :oops: Sorry.

Here is the link:
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Myth 7.

I am not sure about other myths since I am not military man. May be this could be discussed here? I mean about myths being listed on this website.

Edit: Not sure about tax things. I wanted to clarify where I am unsure.

 

[anthony]

Don't be sorry, you haven't done anything wrong.

Saying that... that isn't really evidence, that is just a story on the Internet. Can you find something more concrete in Scholar or such? A study about cheating and what defines it, maybe?

 

[Tanishq]

That was the only link I could find and agreed with that. We need strong proof, you are right. This is not evidence. No. I don't have strong evidence which backups claim, I will try to find one.

Saying that... that isn't really evidence, that is just a story on the Internet. Can you find something more concrete in Scholar or such? A study about cheating and what defines it, maybe?

I had feeling that's not concrete proof. Thanks for giving me hint what can be reliable source. Scholar and studies. Thank you.

Edit: My next question was how to find reliable source and how to know it's reliable or not. It got answered.

 

[anthony]

@Tanishq you may find what you're looking for, maybe, by looking at the studies compiled in section 6: Link Removed