News The Lastest News Report On Ptsd Has Me Seeing Red

[Grama-Herc]

Well, started some interesting discussions over this one, now didn't I. I still am angry though. Maybe it was just the way it was presented to me. ??????? or the way I perceived it.

 

[Girl3]

Perception is everything to the one perceiving.

I remember once my husband and a friend of his were discussing the rape of a girl and it was noted in the news story that several people "noted that the victim was scantily-clad" and "very drunk". They both stated that the girl was asking for it, being drunk and dressed like a slut. (Mind you this was 15 years ago before either of them had any daughters.)

But I said - OK if either of you was dead drunk and dressed sloppily, would it be justifiable to beat you with a tire iron and take your money? My point being that being drunk and dressed in any fashion doesn't mean you deserve to become the victim of a violent crime.

PTSD makes you perceive things differently than John Q Public.

 

[melody]

I think the reason you're seeing "red" Grandma Herc is the same reason guys like this piss me off too! Sure a lot of what he states is true; like how some of us have PTS and go on to live normal lives, but others end up with PTSD and with help can learn to cope. But he makes it sound so easy. Like if we purchase his book, we'll wake up tomorrow without PTSD and feeling better about our lives because we have new direction and positivity! As if!! I've read countless books hoping for this and believe me it's not going to happen. Not to me anyway... I spent years running away from my traumas and reading every book I could because I believed I was going to "get over" PTSD. But in the end, I just felt disappointment in the realization that although I can learn to cope with PTSD, I will always have it.

Another reason it pisses me off... Dr. Joseph, and other "PTSD specialists" are heard in interviews like these, by our family and friends and they are misleading. I find they, meaning my family and friends then come to me and say why haven't I read his book? That if I'd only look (for help from these professionals), instead of being so "negative," that I could get over PTSD and live a normal life?! ...Further adding to the dilusion that PTSD is "all in my head" and that if I'd only try, I could "get over it!"