PSTD is totally a disorder and ILLNESS because sometimes people don't have it after experiencing a trauma.

Nobody says that it's a pleasant or easy reaction. But if situation is effed up... of course bad reaction is "normal". The thing is to accept "bad **** happen to me and I have "right" to feel back".

I had a trauma issues from various sources and been denying it, been pulling the same "others got over it just fine" crap, blamed the reaction on me being a freak...

the disorder label seems so countraproductive. Sorry, it does.