Debate whether PTSD is real

[SofondaCox]

They went on to make an argument that fundamentally undercut the certainty that Western ideas about trauma are universal. “A victim processes a traumatic event as a function of what it means,” they wrote. “This meaning is drawn from their society and culture and this shapes how they seek help and their expectation of recovery.” Trauma reactions aren’t automatic physiological reactions inside the brain, they suggested, but rather cultural communications.

this sounds like a path to tolerating pederasty. Be very, very wary of the psychiatric community. It is festooned with sexual deviants. “It’s only traumatic because culture” is an argument made by NAMBLA and PIE.

CAN a person be shell shocked? Of fucking course.
Is it heavily, heavily over diagnosed? Of course.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

I’ll debate it only with those who have been kidnapped and anally raped for a week.

All seven days, or merely mon-fri?

 

[melty]

CAN a person be shell shocked? Of fucking course.
Is it heavily, heavily over diagnosed? Of course.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm getting at. Obviously, some people react to trauma, and some of those reactions are included in the diagnosis of PTSD. But the diagnosis itself, like many psych diagnosis, is unscientific and overly broad.

Another thing people don't understand is how much media and culture affects presentation of disorders and diagnosis. If your media and education and all experts tell you you will be highly traumatized forever and you need 1000 hours of therapy and will never be the same person again, that's what you believe. But not everybody around the world believes this, and coincidentally, a lot of those people seem to fare better after traumatic events despite "lack of healthcare." If anything, the more mental healthcare a country has, the worse off it seems to be, which is what I was getting at by posting the article about how affluent countries (usually countries with a lot of western scientific influence) have higher rates of PTSD. You can see this with virtually all mental health diagnosis.

It's a dirty secret that formally naming a psychological disorder brings a lot of people out of the woodwork with it that wouldn't have otherwise had any trouble. They can be mind viruses, just like troonism. The symptoms may be real, but a lot of what surrounds the "diagnosis" and "treatment" is just woo.

 

[AgendaPoster]

invented by psychiatrists

Maybe they were just naming and describing an already existing phenomenon.
Doing what we humans do best - create categories.

 

[Dawdler]

Maybe they were just naming and describing an already existing phenomenon.
Doing what we humans do best - create categories.

Or turn it into profitable market. Healthy people don't need head meds. People who are diagnosed with "chemical imbalance" do

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

PTSD is real but it's an overused term, and sometimes even when it applies I feel like a new term should be used because "real PTSD" is socially reserved for soldiers of war in a sense. I have trauma like a lot of people but I'd feel kinda like an asshole to call it PTSD.