Back to language and the topic...

I find it fascinating that much of our language can be broken down and really plays a role in our culture. I think it is often subconscious. A non MI related example is "accountability" vs "responsibility" in corp and politics. I heard this in podcast talk years ago and have tried to find it a couple times unsuccessfully. I think she was a linguist or historian or both. Anyway... "Responsibility" used to be used a lot when a mistake was made but it has now shifted to "accountability" at the same time public figures address mistakes. "Accountability" or "account" is used in mathematics to do things like balance books and is less personal then "responsibility" which is part "response" and we think of as "taking care" for the result of the mistake. "Accountability" removes personal responsibility from the person(s) and places it on the non human corporation or government machine. This shift is not really working long term. It's starting to piss people off.

So people here (including me) have already broken down dis-"order" but not did-"ease" as much. When I do that I start to back off my original opinion because aren't most MI about a loss of "ease" or "comfort"? I throw that out there as food for thought because I don't know for sure.

I like Venus's thoughts about PTSD being PTS. Circling back to previous post... The neurobiological child development or adult changes seems more like adaptation which we have not quite learned how to work with. I don't necessarily see this as "wrong". When somebody "relives" a trauma and I have been around someone working through this, it eventually seems to have a healing effect. "Eventually" being the key word because the healing nature of the "event" is not immediately clear . I qualify this by saying I have only witness this in one person and recall reading about this (or the failure of) in books. Sophie's choice comes to mind as failure but Sybil comes across as success (if you read her version which I haven't.)

The causal connection shown in the study between MI and trauma... It suggests that dealing with the trauma as both a neurobiological cause and root cause is key in understanding the MI which is also a result. To your point autism does seem like something that is probably naturally occurring and a result of trauma or events. That would make the whole "bucket" problematic.

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