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It's really hard to read this comment as anything but a quiet suggestion that perhaps PTSD is a result of mental health workers and not the result of trauma. W
by jclulow 3y ago
It's really hard to read this comment as anything but a quiet suggestion that perhaps PTSD is a result of mental health workers and not the result of trauma. What seems far more likely is that people trapped in cultures that have not really developed a strong mental health response (e.g., 20th century America) have few if any resources available to help people with their literally invisible condition, and they have been trained through stigma and other "culture-bound" behaviours to keep their problems to themselves and show that stiff upper lip.
- philwelch 3y ago> It's really hard to read this comment as anything but a quiet suggestion that perhaps PTSD is a result of mental health workers and not the result of trauma. I’m sorry you struggled and ultimately failed to understand what I was saying, because I actually clarified this specific point: > This isn’t to say that other cultures don’t have stress reactions, but they have different stress reactions that crystallize in forms that are more “normal” to their cultures, the way textbook PTSD is effectively “normal” to our culture.