The reason so many PTSD patients seek to "isolate" is because they are trying to reduce the challenge of being stimulated in a way where they lose control of how their brains respond where they cannot "intervene with these normal assessments that others do so "effortlessley". The way others offer "just" advice is not something a PTSD victim is capable of doing, so when others make these suggestions, and often do so in "condescending" manners, PTSD patients get very frustrated and angry because they can't seem to explain to others "THAT THEY CAN'T "JUST" DO THAT" now that they have PTSD damage to their brains.

What I am saying here is "not" just my opinion either. I have had to painstakenly research it to understand "why" I struggle so much and am often so very challenged by not being able to "JUST" like I used to be able to do. It is SO MUCH WORK for me to try to work around these changes that have taken place in my brain. And when others respond with comments like, "I have had bad things happen to me too, you just have to move on and not dwell, or learn to get over it" I do get upset tbh, because it is so disrespectful to a very real challenge that is often very crippling.

A broken brain? Well, I hate to think of it like that, but if you study the effects PTSD has on the brain and how a person is "really" challenged by that "change", yes there are parts of the brain that do not function normally anymore.