I wasn't aware of the name change, but that is how the psychiatric community works. Constantly changing things. Either way, I have it. Thanks for the into. I hope you have a good night.

Interesting. About five years ago, I had a doctor refer to it as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

both disorder and sydrome make it sound like we have something wrong with us. Response is a reaction to truama, so it takes away the feeling of me having something wrong with me. It's natural to react to truama. It's subtle, but it's significant.

I like response much better, however, for insurance purposes, the use of response rather than disorder may be used in denying a claim for services. I don't want that.

I agree with what elleclair has said. I can see how layman and earthlings (ie, people who do not have PTSD/PTSR) might think that it's no big deal because it's just a response. "Just change the response," they'd say. Easier said than done. lol



I do understand what you're getting at, sundeva. I don't like having PTSD/PTSR being described as a mental disorder, because it's not really. It's a trauma response that causes a chemical reaction, not a chemical reaction that causes a trauma response. In other words, it doesn't manifest itself the way a disorder like schitzophrenia does.

I know once the PTSD/PTSR is active, it is self-perpetuating through chemical response, but it doesn't begin that way. It begins with a traumatic event. We aren't born with it. We have healthy mental functioning before the PTSD/PTSR manifests itself.

I hate it when people assume I must be intellectually deficient or mentally incompetent because I suffer from this. I'm not crazy. I'm traumatized. There is a difference.

Anyhow, that's the world according to bato. Just one former earthling's opinion. lol

I like the name change too. :)

What is E. Fry??

I saw my new Pdoc today, and he still referred to it as PTSD.

I like the response...but I get what Bato said too, about the layfamily response to the response.

Yeah, they'd get all Pavlovian on us.

I do not know if the British attitude to anything that could be termed a mental illness is different to the rest of the world but here, unless you cloak your condition in euphemisms like "stressed", you are beyond the pale. Most people here equate any psychiatric condition with mad and are not comfortable with anybody who says they have one. So a name change wont make much difference here. Even our Doctors use phrases like "nervous" to cover the embarrassment of any mention of psychiatric problems. That is really an insane attitude for society to have but it is really prevalent here. You cant tell people whatever name you use.

Wow bat, I love your description of how pts is different from mental illness.
Daisy, E. Fry is Elizabeth Fry Society. It's a society started by a woman for women and today is a place for couseling for women victims.
The british attitude is so arcaic. It's behind us and we are just starting to become aware. Yike.

What makes me sad is that most people will either experience a mental illness in their lifetime, or have a loved one who does. We are all touched by it, so, why are people experiencing it treated like pariahs? It's so hypocritical of our society.

I read a pamphlet in a doctor's office that stated 1 out of 3 people will suffer from a mental illness in their lifetime, and 1 out of 8 will be hospitalized for it. That's a lot of 'secrets' out there being covered up.

Yes , Bato, it is sad but people cant deal with things that scare them. I think that at base our society is terrified of psychiatric illness.

My head doctor called it a syndrome but my family doctor told me it was a disorder. Geesh!!! and I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which is wrongly labeled. Sounds like I am chronically lazy.. NOT it is so many many illnesses in one word. They are trying hard to change that name.. One is "M~E" some big long word I cant even begin to spell but Yes i like it better and the word RESPONSE is my new name for my old pts "disorder" THANK U!!!!

Ya! Somebody got it.