Me the drama queen

[Sue U]

Thank you all. Back from the hosp., .

Glad you slipped the hand of Azrael. This time, at least. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Thanks for the image Joe. At least that was removed, day after. Obviously, my P had Totally Stopped Draining

The rhythm of life - hacking at matata. toilet chair drink water toilet chair drink water toilet chair drink water toilet chair drink water et sic porro



(lib, if you really want to have a go at it, start a thread)

[liberty]

Thanks for the image Joe. At least that was removed, day after. Obviously, my P had Totally Stopped Draining

The rhythm of life - hacking at matata. toilet chair drink water toilet chair drink water toilet chair drink water toilet chair drink water et sic porro



(lib, if you really want to have a go at it, start a thread)

I know it’s none of my business, so you don’t have to answer, but I’m curious whether you have a kidney problem?

[MajGenl.Meade]

BPH requiring HoLEP lib. An amazingly fitting acronym really

[liberty]

PTSD is a wandering term. Once upon a time Trauma was a technical term for an event that could be expected to directly result in death. Now it seems to apply to paper cuts, Now the military is using a term 'Moral wounds' Just one more datum in the long road of human behavior. Authority recognizes a big problem and names it. Understanding comes to see fixing the problem is too hard, too expensive, too embarrassing, so change the name. Nobody suffers from shelf shock anymore,

snailgate.

Normally I consider your contributions to be of the highest quality, but this one doesn’t pass the smell test.

No, nobody is calling a paper cut trauma except in the clinical sense that any abrasion to skin is a trauma to the epidermis.

PTSD is reserved for the greatest of insults to the human brain - whether the insults suffered in war by military members, or the insults suffered by children who are grievously abused in the developmental stages, or by adults who endure a pattern of abuse or individual incidents of abuse that create the damage to their brains that gives rise to the pattern of reactivity and suffering that is now labeled post traumatic stress disorder.

The article I linked from the Civil War studies journal went into great detail describing the various manifestations seen in the soldiers of that time, and it is instructive how similar these were to what is seen manifest in active duty and veterans of warfare today.

It’s been a long hard battle engaged in by PTSD sufferers and their advocates to raise awareness and support of the issue, so you’ll have to forgive my sensitivity when met with what seems to be the kind of dismissiveness that has made it so difficult for so many years to gain respect for the condition and the many people who suffer from it.

I don’t want to leave this thread without acknowledging something I believe is true. Stress can be dangerous. A certain amount can toughen a person and make them stronger, but too much can overwhelm someone. I can’t scientifically prove it, but I believe it’s real. I believe stress can eat away at a person until their health fails or their feeling of hopelessness leads to suicide. I don’t know what can be done about it, because there’s no way to predict how much stress any one person can take. All I can say is that if someone feels a situation is damaging their health, they should try to get out of that situation or find a way to change it.