PP phrases it badly, but there is an aspect of scientific truth in there. Your chances of getting PTSD from a traumatic experience is less if you feel as if yo

PP phrases it badly, but there is an aspect of scientific truth in there. Your chances of getting PTSD from a traumatic experience is less if you feel as if you are in control. I cannot find the paper I read at the time, I feel I'm missing the right phrase, but here's a more recent one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6161595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6161595/ --- I have had three memorable traumatic events in a fairly long life, each about ten years apart. I was in an explosion where my girlfriend and I were the closest people to survive; I was in a physically abusive relationship; and I was in an abusive work situation. I had no effects from the explosion. It took me over a year to recover from the abusive relationship and separately, from the abusive job. A counselor explained to me the reason was that after the explosion, I was in control and immediately made the right decisions to survive basically unscratched, so I experienced no trauma. In the other two cases, I was trapped and felt powerless.