Yet another reason they still should call it "Shell Shock". Once they named it PTSD, they found other applications of the term, outside of combat.
I have been concerned for some time with what I consider the promiscuous use of the PTSD label. Have these people been officially diagnosed? I haven’t gone to the Daily Mail article yet. I think that there could be an occasional civilian case, say somebody who has been in a hostage situation, a survivor of some horrible crime, maybe a rampage where others around them were getting killed, unusually bad cases of domestic or child abuse, survivors of natural disasters. For example this girl in the Oso mudslide who was literally hanging onto her baby for dear life—if she would say later she has PTSD, I won’t argue. But all that being said, I am really concerned about PTSD becoming a racket. At the risk of sounding mean, we know that people are trying for disability when their unemployment ends. Also a few years back, it was a big cause célèbre when people found out that drug addicts and alcoholics were getting disability checks, so as I understand it, a lot of them were pronounced mentally ill so they could still get the checks.
On a separate subject, why is their always so much ridicule of peoples’ physical appearance, especially women, it seems to me, here? Remind me never to post my picture on Free Republic.