not perhaps.

For me "normal" is in... as it happens. If you break bone, it's "normal" it hurts. It's "normal" to have fever with a flu. It's way of saying that although it sucks right now, it is something that happens and it is very likely it will pass.

I am one who needs to hear "it's okay" when I am depressed... knowing I am not a freak, I am not causing problems by not being "just fine", that I am allowed to cry and that I am not "broken".

For me PTS(D) is "normal" and "natural" in a way that it happens to people and it's expection if person can shake off trauma easily. It's "normal" and one has right to be a mess, one has "right" to take time to recover, one has the "right" not to be the same person has before. Some things can be healed only with assistance of time I think. And it's perfectly okay and normal... despite the pressure to act like nothing happened (and hey here in my Bloc it's probably even worse. One is supposed to be tough at all times.)