First-world PTSD...

[alexpgp]

Via mallorys_camera, writing about an acquaintance who may be described as "a self-indulgent flake," who has applied for PTSD disability due to work stress:

I'm sure I could get no end of therapists that would cheerfully certify me as having PTSD. I mean, in the space of 18 months, I lost [...] everything – my home, my livelihood, my husband,most of my worldly possessions. Everything. But I wouldn't dream of doing something like that. I mean, there are real human beings who've scraped the bloody body parts of their closest friends off their legs in roadside mortar attacks. They have PTSD. I've just had… a rough time.

And you know what? When you have a rough time, you just soldier on. You repack the load so it balances better, you get back up and you start back down the road. That's the essential grace of being a human being.

It makes me [...] furious that someone with all the advantages doesn't understand this.

Cheers...

Comments

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a lack of vocabulary. Emotional damages similar to battlefield 'PTSD' may come from other causes; but they deserve treatment regardless of the cause.

mykecole.com/blog/2013/03/what-ptsd-is

[velvet-granat.livejournal.com]

Too true... though it doesn't make me furious. I actually feel sorry for people of that type. They miss out on the best parts of life, including that wonderful feeling of victory when you know that you scraped yourself off the floor, gave it another shot and DID IT. A hard-won victory is the best and sweetest kind ;)

(Perhaps I've been doing boxing for too long. Or just long enough ;) ).

P.S. I've met and known people with serious PTSD. The real thing no joke... but none of them got it because their job was too difficult!

[sydb42.livejournal.com]

One of the requirements for a PTSD diagnosis is being involved in a life-threatening situation. What kind of work do they do?