Sorry But No, PTSD is NOT Brain Damage
And I should know.
Full disclosure: one additional item was listed on the bottom row. It was incident-specific whereas the rest were not so I removed the last one.
I’m restless today so I thought I’d scan through here and see what caught my eye and made me read. Well, skim is more like it. The title states that PTSD is the same as brain damage.
Uh, no. It is not.
You can have PTSD (a mental illness) without having brain damage (physical illness) and the reverse is also true. I was in a five-car pile-up years ago. I’ve had multiple brain scans for various reasons since then and not one iota of any type of brain damage. But I most certainly have PTSD. Technically I have CPSD but I’m not a clinician so keeping it simple works for me.
Emotional Trauma and PTSD do cause both brain and physical damage.
That’s a quote they used as a source. It clearly states that it can CAUSE brain damage which is NOT the same as it IS brain damage. So why am I so torqued up about this?
Because I have for the last 20+ years fought tooth and nail to get my issues not only addressed but appropriately addressed and treated. This misnomer only adds to the confusion. I read once a few years back a comment on social media from a woman who said she had PTSD from having a miscarriage.
Uh, no you didn’t.
You had an unfortunate thing happen to you that ended up with grief from the loss but that’s light years away from PTSD. If one bad thing happening in your life is all it takes for you to have PTSD then everyone on the face of the planet has PTSD. See how that works?
Stop claiming what isn’t yours. It only makes it harder for the rest of us who truly do have issues to get the help we need and to be taken seriously. You don’t get to self-diagnose. That’s not how it works. It’s the equivalent of pretending to be a war vet when you’re not. Or even these fake cops that get busted by real cops.
It’s an attention-seeking maneuver. I’m sorry you don’t get the attention you feel you need but screwing those of us that have all the attention we can handle is not the way to go about it.
I suggest therapy, a weighted blanket, and that you join some support groups where you’ll get all of the attention and hugs that you are so clearly clamoring for.
