Wow, apology accepted. My brother has a severe case of PTSD after returning from a tour in Bosnia. It`s been over a decade and he is still seriously fucked up. That`s why I felts strongly about your post.
I do apologize Number1, i know anxiety/stress after a horrific event can change people. Did not mean to offend anyone with PTSD.
..Now lets talk about Christians..lol
Wow, apology accepted. My brother has a severe case of PTSD after returning from a tour in Bosnia. It`s been over a decade and he is still seriously fucked up. That`s why I felts strongly about your post.
That's horrible man. Is there any community support for him to get help, or has the government helped?
I do apologize Number1, i know anxiety/stress after a horrific event can change people. Did not mean to offend anyone with PTSD.
..Now lets talk about Christians..lol
I was about 5 blocks away when the planes hit/buildings collapsed and it f*cked me up for quite a while (panic attacks mostly), but I have learned to deal with it.
To say that it's bullsh*t is just ridiculous.
No. PTSD is bullshit. Wasn't that "condition" called Shell Shock back in the day?
Wow, apology accepted. My brother has a severe case of PTSD after returning from a tour in Bosnia. It`s been over a decade and he is still seriously fucked up. That`s why I felts strongly about your post.
I talked to my friend and it turned out they spent the entire day yesterday watching 9\11 specials on TV and surfing the internet about conspiracy theories. He didn't eat or sleep at all yesterday so I am a little worried that 9\\11 has really messed up my friend. 'm not sure if it is PTSD or wot.
No. PTSD is bullshit. Wasn't that "condition" called Shell Shock back in the day?
I was about 5 blocks away when the planes hit/buildings collapsed and it f*cked me up for quite a while (panic attacks mostly), but I have learned to deal with it.
To say that it's bullsh*t is just ridiculous.
Thanks, psych major. :hmm:
Are you really stupid enough to not know that certain strong and graphic memories may trigger a physiological reaction?
Now go crawl back under whatever rock from where you came.
Do you ever post anything without insulting someone? Contribute much?
*shrug* I don't know it seemed to mess up my friend pretty badIF you were there when it happened, then I could see that being reasonable to occur. But getting ptsd from watching it on tv, come the fuck on, seriously?
Years later, it seems that his PTSD developed into into something far worse (paranoid, schizophrenic delusions). I don't know what happened to him after that.
He started posting in P&N?
He had a very entertaining (disturbing) thread going not too long ago.
There's a lot of moments of 9/11 that were caught on tape that could cause some serious problems to people without the stomach for it.
I get a wash of emotions watching videos of people falling from the towers knowing that those were real people. In the end it doesn't bother my life, nor does it impact that specific date each year.
Just keep swimming...
Please, no one who wasn't directly affected (ie loved one died, was there them self,...) does NOT have PTSD. Any claims of such are just bullshit. These people should be ashamed for lying about having PTSD.
No. PTSD is bullshit. Wasn't that "condition" called Shell Shock back in the day?
I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protest themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation. For some reason, it just keeps getting worse. I'll give you an example of that. There's a condition in combat. Most people know about it. It's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum. Can't take anymore input. The nervous system has either (click) snapped or is about to snap. In the first world war, that condition was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables, shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was seventy years ago. Then a whole generation went by and the second world war came along and very same combat condition was called battle fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell shock! Battle fatigue. Then we had the war in Korea, 1950. Madison avenue was riding high by that time, and the very same combat condition was called operational exhaustion. Hey, were up to eight syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase. It's totally sterile now. Operational exhaustion. Sounds like something that might happen to your car. Then of course, came the war in Viet Nam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called post-traumatic stress disorder. Still eight syllables, but we've added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-traumatic stress disorder. I'll bet you if we'd of still been calling it shell shock, some of those Viet Nam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I'll betcha. I'll betcha.
But. But, it didn't happen, and one of the reasons. One of the reasons is because we were using that soft language. That language that takes the life out of life. And it is a function of time. It does keep getting worse.