I have noticed the phrase “post-traumatic stress disorder” popping up in more and more articles of this type, signifying a PTSD type reaction to normal daily stresses.
Is this going to be the future health care issue? People who would never go anywhere near a battlefield claiming the same type of injury as someone who has seen a little hell in their time?
There was a video I saw during the election season of 2004 where a union meeting occurred. A union member stood up and claimed that his twenty years on the production line were just as hard as a soldier doing twenty years and that he deserved life time medical care just like the soldiers.
I did not break the TV, but I did do a lot of yelling at the TV, and the guys around me were kind of put off their meal. The TV was in a chow hall in Iraq and we were between shifts at the POW compound.
New York Times Magazine's Sunday edition's cover article was why pregnant black women/newborns today have higher mortality rates than non-blacks, even higher than in the past, many years ago when black women were considered "chattel."
Their conclusion? Living in constant racism and oppression in America creates so much stress and anxiety they were just sicker mothers - more blood pressure, more preclampsia, etc.
It a “latch-on” disorder...too easy to claim.