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RE: How I discovered I have PTSD and grew from the experience
I think that it's simply dishonest to call oneself a "survivor" if one's life was never in danger to begin with. A lot of people do it, purely for self aggrandizement.
Or to talk about the battlefield and PTSD, when you've never been to a battle or seen your buddy's guts hang over the tree branch, still steaming hot.
A person, especially a sensitive woman, can certainly get very traumatized even by a small thing like a man looking at her wrong on the train. But this does not make her a hero or him a villain.
Pain is pain. PTSD is not only for the battlefield. It happens to 15% of male and female who have been through a traumatic event. That can be a car accident, a death of a close one, childhood abuse, abusive relationship and so on. If a woman is "traumatized" (triggered) by someone only looking at her "wrong" - it's because she was already traumatized by something larger. Its not Post War Stress Disorder - It is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Living with PTSD is surviving every day. So does depression. One doesn't take the importance or affect of others.
What happened to me changed the direction of the rest of my life. i didn't even know i had PTSD for years afterwards.