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Nov 15, 2009, 11:11 PM
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Member Since: Dec 2003
Location: Coram Deo
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Originally Posted by MINIME
I believe that professionals need to stop calling PTSD a mental illness. Its not unusual for someone who has been hurt to reac this way.
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You're right in that someone who has been traumatized can react "that way" to it. But professionals need to call it something. It used to be called "shell shock" from war incidents only, and trauma by other means was all but ignored. From the Vietnam conflict we got PTSS, where it was called a "syndrome."
I don't like the term mental illness either. Mental unwellness is a bit better, don't you think? I wouldn't know how to categorize it personally, otherwise. It's a chemical reaction ...brain chemicals change and the memory of the situation/event aren't processed quite adequately...and that produces physical and emotional reactions. It is a disorder of some normal processes, thus PTSD...an after trauma stress of disordered thinking and reacting.
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