
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
Find support with others who have gone through a traumatic experience. Whether you have chronic or acute PTSD, we are here for you.

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I went into the E. Fry today to get some info and they told me that they don't call it ptsd any more because it's not a disorder. It's a response. Calling it a disorder is like blaming the victim. It is how we respond to life because of truama, therefore it is post truamatic stress response. I thought that was really sensitive, becuase I already thought it was the least negative label. I find the label personality disorder to be highly offensive. Looking at myself as having ptsr feels really different, and kind fo more ok. Try it and see how it feels.
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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 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.
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.
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.