Question:
I spent a little time browsing the proceedings from the Abduction
research conference held at MIT yesterday. One of the topics
that was discussed at the conference mentioned that many people who
report abduction experiences suffer from Post-Tramatic-Stress-Disorder
(PTSD).
This seems pretty reasonable, given some of the reports from abductees.
What was interesting about this was that It also referenced a study
showing that PTSD is something that only comes from "real" events - i.e.
You don't get PTSD from made up, or imagined trama.
Answer:
while the odd ufo story can look intriguing from several angles, I don't
buy 'abductions.'
Bring on the evidence for 'genuine' PTSD.
Don't be so fussy. Why bring evidence into it?
So why do all the other studies show that you can get PTSD from made
up or imagined trauma?
I think there's a difference between making something up or imagining
something, and coming to genuinely and wholeheartedly believe that a
traumatic event actually occurred. And I can see stress resulting,
since stress is a mental reaction to what we perceive.
There's talk about people dying because a hex was placed upon them.
They almost certainly died due to stress. Assuming the validity of
that, the stress resulted from the victim's perception of what had
happened to them, rather than any external reality.
