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Originally Posted by ChipperMonkey
"Secondary" PTSD is a bit of a misnomer. You have your own trauma(s) but the "secondary" part just means that you were traumatized by someone else who has PTSD.
Can you share why you don't agree with the diagnosis?
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It's misleading, and kind of unfair, in a sense. I mean, I have struggled to have my own identity my entire life, but someone I'm always attached to that part of my life I want to just get away from. I suppose, though, given what a diagnosis is meant for amongst professionals, my claim of unfairness is, in and of itself, unfair, in a way. I'm sounding silly.
The reason I refuse the "secondary" is because it makes it feel more inferior. I have an inferiority complex, I reckon, and if I tell someone who doesn't full "get it," suppose they'll say "that's it?" And I'll go ham just like that.
It's all a mind game, really, and yes, I agree with it. Your definition was the easiest to understand without me throwing a temper tantrum for feeling inferior and not getting my way. Sometimes, worse isn't the best, like my mind likes to think.