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Here, if I were to say "I have trauma issues" instead of PTSD, there is an assumption you are just like them. Meaning you are ok really, with something to workout, but other wise fine. There is not an assumption you might be disabled. And even with using PTSD as a way to communicate it still goes over peoples heads in general. There is a major stigma here. If you can not see the injury, damage or disability the idea is you can "suck it up" and be fine.
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But I am okay, scars and all, I am alive and with chance to live yet.
Maybe the American obsession with clinical terms and black and white view between okay/ill and disabled is the problem here.
Sure, I am able to work and appear well, that does not mean I am okay at all times. There is a wide scale of well being.
(I hate to consider myself ill for not being able to handle situations life has thrown on me like a psychopath and be unaffected by it. Trauma changes you. I just hope to grow from the paranoid aggressive ***** to wonderfully decandent and wise person).
(I don't mean any offense, whatsoever. I just come from the former Eastern bloc. Which is diagnosis of sorts).
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