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Originally Posted by TheDragon
Oh boy I don't even know where to start with this. PTSD isn't traumatic brain injury, and the research that "proves" that PTSD literately changes the brain is questionable at best, and it is not steadily considered by the scientific community to be the accurate model of looking at neurology in conjunction with PTSD. Yes, I've read these articles too, and yes, I know that anyone can find an article or even scientific journals proving their side of the debate. I just really don't buy into the whole broken brain theory...or if you prefer I could be obstinately refusing to look at it that way.
On a personal level, I think that as hard as it may be, people with PTSD are not somehow magically limited by a "broken brain" and literately cannot do something or express certain emotions. They CAN do "just that" whatever it may be, it might just be extremely extremely hard in certain circumstances. At the end of the day, it's cognitive in nature, since it's due to experiences.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.”
-Henry Ford
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I don't know while I see how this veiw point could be beneficial to some, it seems to kinda lean towards 'if I can do it anyone can' sort of thinking. I mean if you have PTSD and feel as though you can do 'just that' whatever it is but its extremely hard then maybe that's more motivating. However in my experiance I've tried and tried as hard as I can to do many things only to burn myself out more and cause further problems so from my perspective the PTSD has prevented me from doing some things...So I suppose I just couldn't apply that thinking to my life.