I will check it out...it is what all around say, to sweep it under a rug. Especially if they were part of the abuse.

I hate that. I hate when people I know (or even randoms) tell me to just "get over" my past. It's the most insensitive thing one can say to another. Thank you for posting the link. I really enjoyed reading her blog.

Some shows are beginning to incorporate characters with PTSD. CSI NewYork. CSI DAR, and CSI Las Vegas all have characters with a PTSD componant. I also see it showing up in some archs, not more than 3 episodes, on other shows all with mostly happy endings.

As a child to adult victim myself, the masks are easy for short periods.

Yup. Most of the television shows or movies that do have characters with PTSD, come off as horribly unrealistic. Having movie-like flashbacks, being scared of everyone on the Planet and turning into a rebellious teenager does not make a person with the disorder. It comes off insincere and cliche.

Oh hell....I tell myself all the time to just get over it. I really don't understand why I can't...

Haha! Exactly! I tell myself that too. I have to remember it's not constructive though. Telling myself that is not going to get me anywhere. In fact, it's just going to end up hurting me. This PTSD thing is a bitch.

I also have a hard time understanding illnesses I have never experienced. I can't count the number of times I have wanted to slap allergy sufferers and a host of others I have not been burdened with.

I am even worse with illnesses I share but am in denial of or currently in vulnerable stages with. It is my way or no way!

Methinks this is simply human. However much I work on my sensitivity levels, my humanity keeps slipping through.

Hugs, jasgall. Humans will be human.

I really appreciate Law and Order SVU's WONDERFUL PORTRAYAL of its main character Olivia Benson after she was tortured and repeatedly raped and beaten. Mariska Hargitay is playing Liv with such a grace & humility & strength. That show is really helping me heal.

I wrote a poem called Dear Mariska after watching the heart-wrenching season premiere. I'm going to send it to her. She started her own foundation called The Joyful Heart Foundation for victims of domestic violence & sexual assault

Mathew Grey Gubler, on CSI Criminal minds also had a good arch. His mother is hospitalized with schizophrenia. He is very high thinking autistic as a child, but dealing also with his mothers problems. He always has a fear of being like her. But approaches everything on a very dissociated way. Then he was abducted and torchered. They still reference it as affecting him, but not handicapping him in his job. Just when certain things in a case trigger him.A positive portrayal.

I did not know about that storyline for SVU. I stopped watching that show awhile ago because it was such a trigger. Might have to try to watch again.
It makes me hopeful that someone is trying to get the message out to the general public to help with some understanding of ptsd. goodness knows we need it desperately.