did anyone see "Panorama - The Trauma Industry" on BBC 1? or hear the Jeremy Vine show on radio 2 yesterday?
I haven't watched or listened yet... but I have been informed that they both show PTSD in an awful light basically saying that military PTSD is real but anyone else claiming it is just trying to get money from the government...
of course this is just what I have heard... it may not be the case... but on a PTSD support form I sometimes go on there has been some complaining about both shows
Last edited by shadow-light : 29-07-2009 at 02:48 PM.
I have only watched the pararoma episode so far, I may listen to the radio broadcast later.
I'm not sure what to think to be honest. Some of the case studies they used just seemed wrong, I mean from that programme it seems that not only is it easier to get a PTSD diagnosis if you go through the legal system but also quicker. I have been in the medical system for over a year and still only have an unofficial diagnosis as the waiting list to see a psychiatrist is so long, so now I almost wish I had sued my abuser just so I had the diagnosis already.
In general though the programme annoyed me. Part of being human is that different people react differently to things, but that show made it sound as if those who struggle either want money or are just pathetic, and that is not true. Different people have different thresholds, and as the psych in the programme said (before the presenter shot him down) some people are more suseptable to PTSD (and other mental illnesses/psychiatric injuries) due to family history or events in their past.
It also made bullying and harassment out to be basically nothing! that is really wrong, bullying and harassment are SO SO SO damaging.
I've never heard of post traumatic depression... from a guess I'd assume that the different would be that it would have more depressive symptoms while PTSD has more anxiety ones...
Post-traumatic depression, reactional depression, major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder represent different clinical and nosographic disorders in despite of their occasionally common symptomatic core.
I have only watched the pararoma episode so far, I may listen to the radio broadcast later.
I'm not sure what to think to be honest. Some of the case studies they used just seemed wrong, I mean from that programme it seems that not only is it easier to get a PTSD diagnosis if you go through the legal system but also quicker. I have been in the medical system for over a year and still only have an unofficial diagnosis as the waiting list to see a psychiatrist is so long, so now I almost wish I had sued my abuser just so I had the diagnosis already.
In general though the programme annoyed me. Part of being human is that different people react differently to things, but that show made it sound as if those who struggle either want money or are just pathetic, and that is not true. Different people have different thresholds, and as the psych in the programme said (before the presenter shot him down) some people are more suseptable to PTSD (and other mental illnesses/psychiatric injuries) due to family history or events in their past.
It also made bullying and harassment out to be basically nothing! that is really wrong, bullying and harassment are SO SO SO damaging.
that doesn't mean it will happen to them though... worrying about it won't be helping, neither for them nor for you, I know you're just trying to look out for them but you'll end up stressing yourself and perhaps irritating them as they will not be able to understand why you are worried
I had a bad dream last night.
I upset a really close friend (unintentionally) and every attempt I made to put it right just made her more angry. I hated it...I woke up really upset.
pathetic eh?
apparently last night when i was asleep i was rolling around crying and screaming and sucking my thumb and shouting 'no please dont take mickie take me instead' (the only mickie i know is a goldfish that died when i was eleven
gah! not had a good last 12 hours... last night I managed to injure my boyfriend :(
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we had sex but then I looked at him and I saw my abusers face, and I hit and kicked... and I hurt him
then I had a really odd nightmare... before the "main events" occurred some lesser things had happened, one of these involved my ex basically trading me to a dealer for a night for drugs... and well, my nightmare lastnight was about that, but instead of a drug dealer it was a policeman... but beyound that it was all exactly the same...
