Question:
Traumatic Stress Symptoms ?
Answer:
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a natural emotional reaction to
a deeply shocking and disturbing experience. It is a /normal/ reaction
to an /abnormal/ situation.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is defined in DSM-IV, the fourth
edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual. For a doctor or mental health professional to be
able to make a diagnosis, the condition must be defined in DSM-IV or its
international equivalent, the World Health Organization's ICD-10.
In the previous version of DSM (DSM-III) a criterion of Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder was for the sufferer to have faced a single major
life-threatening event; this criterion was present because a) it was
thought that PTSD could not be a result of "normal" events such as
bereavement, business failure, interpersonal conflict, bullying,
harassment, stalking, marital disharmony, working for the emergency
services, etc, and b) most of the research on PTSD had been undertaken
with people who / had/ suffered a threat to life (eg combat veterans,
especially from Vietnam, victims of accident, disaster, and acts of
violence).
In DSM-IV the requirement was eased although most mental health
practitioners continue to interpret diagnostic criterion A1 as applying
only to a single major life-threatening event. There is growing
recognition that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can result from many
types of emotionally shocking experience including an accumulation of
small, individually non-life-threatening events in which case the
resultant PTSD is referred to as Complex PTSD.
because you have the diagnosis of ptsd? i can say with absolute
certainty that you are not unique in this regard among those who post
here.
because your diagnosis makes you sensitive? i say this as matter of
factly as i possibly can: you're doing to have to get over it. and, on
top of that, you're going to have to stop inciting the behaviors you
wish to avoid. no, i'm not "blaming the victim". you give as good as
you get here. you're not weak and powerless and you have and make
choices.
because the response you receive here is exacerbating the symptoms of
ptsd? matter of factly, again: leave. if it hurts when you "go like
this"...
there are other places you can go for the information you seek about
bdsm. there are other places you can go for the support you seek for
myriad issues. usenet is a particular culture. it is not meant to be
nice. it is anarchy. and you will. not. change. that. if that hurts,
well...don't "go like this" and just go. i suspect you will stay. in
which case you are setting yourself up, which is a whole 'nother ball
of axis II.
