Degree of severity and duration is the main difference between normal reaction and a disorder. Not sure how this is merely a "larger than healthy helping." The

Degree of severity and duration is the main difference between normal reaction and a disorder. Not sure how this is merely a "larger than healthy helping." The article describes a cycle of hostility, depression, hypervigilance, and self-loathing that does not go away (over months, even years) which is triggered by real or perceived trauma. This is not normal behaviour. That is your brain reacting in a disordered, destructive way to threats which are oversized or exaggerated in the brain. This is your brain not turning off it's fear response and acting like you need to DESTROY the people who have slighted you. This leads to shame and wanting to destroy or hide from yourself, and the cycle continues. The treatment seems to be therapy so that you can learn to handle your responses and tone them down. Is that so bizarre? "Coping" isn't a healthy long-term strategy. It's just survival. Disorders like PTSD are your brain trying to cope with what it thinks is an existential threat that won't go away. What the article describes is a disordered and exaggerated response to social trauma that a person can't seem to get over by themselves, and is destructive to themselves and the people around them.