RE: How I discovered I have PTSD and grew from the experience by cogliostro

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life · @cogliostro · Jul 23 '16

I think that it's simply dishonest to call oneself a "survivor" if one's life was never in danger to begin with. A lot of people do it, purely for self aggrandizement.

Or to talk about the battlefield and PTSD, when you've never been to a battle or seen your buddy's guts hang over the tree branch, still steaming hot.

A person, especially a sensitive woman, can certainly get very traumatized even by a small thing like a man looking at her wrong on the train. But this does not make her a hero or him a villain.

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@rainbowdash · Jul 23 '16

Pain is pain. PTSD is not only for the battlefield. It happens to 15% of male and female who have been through a traumatic event. That can be a car accident, a death of a close one, childhood abuse, abusive relationship and so on. If a woman is "traumatized" (triggered) by someone only looking at her "wrong" - it's because she was already traumatized by something larger.  Its not Post War Stress Disorder - It is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Living with PTSD is surviving every day. So does depression.  One doesn't take the importance or affect of others.

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@leopotato · Jun 27 '17

What happened to me changed the direction of the rest of my life.  i didn't even know i had PTSD for years afterwards.

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