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Originally Posted by pachyderm
PTSD is not physical brain injury in the usual sense, but... there must be some alteration to the brain -- assuming you believe that the mind is derived from the brain. So it could be considered to be a brain injury, I think. Everything one learns must mean a change in the brain, or else there would be no learning at all.
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but then again, since it can be undone (neuroplasticity) by the way you think and act...
it cannot be really compared to "illness like any other".
although there are people who believe any illness has emotional base. Even physical illnesses and for it to heal, you have to get that sphere right first (I don't agree fully, but i grew up around such people).
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