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Originally Posted by Mysterious Flyer
Complex posttraumatic disorder never goes away. Simple PTSD sometimes does go away. Another thing that never goes away is societal judgements. Never tell anyone you know that you have it. They will look it up online and discover that it never goes away, and you will become a useless person to them.
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There are people in my family and a couple outside that know I have PTSD, and they don't view me as useless...but I certainly wouldn't go telling acquaintances and people I don't know about it as they could have a judgmental view about it.