Monday, May 4, 2009

Is Trauma Being Trivialized?


We have known that people suffered from PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) have frequently many obstacles to do their works. This article is about Trauma is trivialized. 

As we know, Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an emotional illness that develops as a result of a terribly frightening, life-threatening, or on the other hand, highly unsafe experience such as terrorism, sexual abuse by the clergy, school shootings or any one of many other causes of angst. PTSD sufferers re-experience the traumatic event or events in some way, tend to avoid places, people, or other things that remind them of the event, and are exquisitely sensitive to normal life experiences.


In this article, I focus on that Dr. van der Kolk who is Mental health experts say the term post-traumatic stress disorder is narrowly and conservatively defined, at least by the diagnostic and statistical manual, the bible for psychologists and psychiatrists that lists mental disorders  officially.  The diagnosis and its treatments are supported by decades of thorough research. Also, they add, even though clinicians can rightly debate just what constitutes trauma. One unintended consequence of peace and prosperity is a liberalized definition of what counts as a traumatic stressor.

To many experts, the PTSD diagnosis is still relatively new and the understanding of the condition naturally evolving.

In a society where there is a lot of support for going to court and getting compensation for many things, there is no reason people would not try to use PTSD to get compensation Ms. Foa said. ''I don't think the issue is scientific. If we change the definition, it won't solve the problem." I agree with her opinion.
If many traumatic stressor do not indicate their own trauma in routine day, furthermore, they feel free from their trauma which is not easy to set free from their painful memory, they absolutely undergo their circumstances. 

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