PTSD Trauma Debate
The cluster centers on debates about whether the experiences described in an article constitute legitimate trauma or PTSD, including discussions on the subjectivity of trauma, CPTSD, post-traumatic growth, and personal anecdotes.
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I have something like PTSD from a similar situation.
He say "post traumatic stress", not PTSD. It's possible to have psychologically issues from seemingly innocuous experiences.
Not enough to have PTSD from it, why?
This is causing a type of PTSD.
I'd be more sympathetic to the author here. You don't know what they experienced, and you don't get a choice on how these things are going to impact you. People can get PTSD from relatively minor accidents or disturbing experiences.I had a fairly traumatic experience like the author's, it was relentlessly terrifying, and some of the things I saw were like precision bomb attacks on my ego that I couldn't just shake off by saying "well that wasn't real".
Here’s a good article on the subjecthttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trauma-bessel-van-de...
I'm getting PTSD reading this article
Counterpoint: Trauma is trauma. The brain doesn't care about relative measures to other situations - it responds to your own experience.https://youtu.be/JBvc7Ny4iUk?si=A-k0KSnNQbT7rB-L
Unfair to whom? It'd say it's more like PTSD.
Something that isn’t PTSD inducing would be better lol