als463, much respect to a war veteran.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I respect that you're a veteran, but PTSD doesn't require a certain level of abuse, it requires an experience that the individual finds traumatic and about a dozen other symptoms including flashbacks, avoidance, hypersensitivity to startle and feeling emotionally numbed It's one of the more complex diagnoses and the only one I found myself having to go back to the DSM-IV for to be sure I'd captured everything relevant.
TL;DR - What the book describes appears to be hazing. However saying the actions weren't "bad enough" to warrant PTSD is wrong.
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Thank you.
It is based on the person's perception. Similarly, there are probably people in the world who might consider some of the things that als463 saw/experienced in Iraq to be of minimal impact in comparison to the things they have seen/experienced.
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