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thestruggle said:
The form of PTSD that vets experience is actually different than other trauma! Other types of trauma that leave someone with PTSD or trauma-spectrum disorders can mimic the flashbacks/sensations of PTSD but it's not typical. PTSD can be caused by any kind of mental/emotional duress, it's good that people are starting to talk about it.
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But the internet giving someone PTSD? That's something I never thought could happen. I know that bullying etc can do it, but I guess I don't take what people say online as serious so I don't really let it affect me.

Besides. I comfort eat, so PTSD will never get me.

eats Jaffa cakes

Mmmmmmm.
 
prettyserpentine said:
But the internet giving someone PTSD? That's something I never thought could happen. I know that bullying etc can do it, but I guess I don't take what people say online as serious so I don't really let it affect me.

Besides. I comfort eat, so PTSD will never get me.

eats Jaffa cakes

Mmmmmmm.
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Absolutely. Any type of harassment could do it, especially if it's sustained. It sounds unlikely but it happens. I mean, if cyberbullying causes people to commit suicide...

Haha. Glad you have your defense in place! :) It's a tasty one.
 
thestruggle said:
The form of PTSD that vets experience is actually different than other trauma! Other types of trauma that leave someone with PTSD or trauma-spectrum disorders can mimic the flashbacks/sensations of combat PTSD but it's not typical. PTSD can be caused by any kind of mental/emotional duress, it's good that people are starting to talk about it.

Edited to add combat PTSD, whoops.
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I think it's in poor taste that she says her PTSD is as intense as the PTSD of rape victims, combat veterans, abuse victims etc. It undermines her credibility in my eyes.

I've seen/read about some of the harassment she's had leveled at her and although some of it is ugly, you'd have to be pretty frail indeed to succumb to PTSD. And if she truly has PTSD from being on Twitter, how can she endure being on Twitter?

I hope I don't appear insensitive in writing this. :(
 
Niceandbrutal said:
I think it's in poor taste that she says her PTSD is as intense as the PTSD of rape victims, combat veterans, abuse victims etc. It undermines her credibility in my eyes.

I've seen/read about some of the harassment she's had leveled at her and although some of it is ugly, you'd have to be pretty frail indeed to succumb to PTSD. And if she truly has PTSD from being on Twitter, how can she endure being on Twitter?

I hope I don't appear insensitive in writing this. :(
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I think that no one should measure symptoms as "worse", because there's no worse - just different. Anyone who wants to be "sicker" than someone else doesn't really understand what that means. But there's a difference between saying that someone is "worse off" instead of "just as valid as." And I'd say that she definitely can say that her disorder has validity, and that people should take it seriously. It makes me pretty sad that people who aren't even living with the disorder are judging her on any basis.

I always try to remember that everyone has different thresholds. This is her personal situation. Maybe she had predisposition to mental illness, or anxiety. Maybe she had trauma in the past. It's not her responsibility to explain how or why she came to her personal diagnosis - it's really no one's business. It's unfortunate that people think mental illness of any form comes in some type of package that must match - everyone's experience is different, no two roads are the same. It doesn't make them any less valid!

Just throwing that out there! :)
 
Well - first off - it's the Daily Mail, which doesn't have any kind of reputation for fair, accurate or unbiased reporting. If the Mail says that she personally said her suffering was equal in severity to military PTSD sufferers, then I'd want to see film of it at least - as it is the article implies that's what she said but doesn't substantiate it.

As for who's suffering is worse, I think everyone on here is agreed it's a stupid distinction to make. The only people I see making it are the Mail with this:

Woman claims mean comments and 'cyberstalking' gave her an illness usually suffered by WAR VETERANS

Given the number of troops actually in combat at any given time, compared to say paramedics and fire and rescue crews, I would be very doubtful if the military were the chief casualties of PTSD - The headline seems designed to imply that there's a hierarchy of suffering though and this woman is trying to jump the queue. But then if there's a feminist in a Mail story, there's no way she's getting painted in a sympathetic light.

Sorry - I foam at the mouth when the D.M. gets mentioned......
 
This made me cry. Patrick Stewart is so awesome, and to see him do work for both domestic violence charities and PTSD charities is just heartwarming. Both these things have affected my life and lives around me and it just makes me feel so good to see positive work being done, and good feelings coming out of it.
 
Niceandbrutal said:
Church? I haven't been to church since I attended the burial of a young man I went to school with.
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Yeah... I'm not going today either. I sort of fell asleep again. Besides, it's a beautiful day here, I'd rather be out in the sunshine than sitting in church. Plus the fact so many people on a facebook are posting religious paraphernalia I feel I don't really need to go...
 
Dedicated to SweetDaisyMae.....

prettyserpentine said:
Yes please!!
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Ok - Are we sitting comfortably?

~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~

Picture the scene: The sun blazes down from a cloudless sky. The ground is hard, dry, dusty and brown. We're in an open city square in the middle east. Roman soldiers stand motionless in a wide perimeter, facing a restless crowd.

In the centre of the square, stands a wooden stake. Taller than a spear is long and about half the thickness of a man's body. A man in a purple robe is being led towards it. He seems calm, he walks with his head high. On his head someone has placed a basket, woven from thorns. He seems unconcerned by the blood that trickles down across his cheeks and his face.

He shows no fear as they remove the robe and lash him, naked, to the stake. The babbling of the crowd dies down as a huge, barrel chested man, clad only in a loincloth steps forward. At the end of his powerfully muscled arm, he holds an ornate, many tongued whip. The crowd fall silent.

The whip is raised. It falls with a swish and a crack. Again and again the giant brings it down on the prisoner's back, but he makes no sound. The crowd begins to murmur. What manner of man is this to take such punishment so stoically?

But finally the prisoner's silence is broken. A low groan is forced from him. Encouraged, the giant flogging him redoubles his efforts. His body is running with sweat as he applies the whip to every visible inch of the prisoner's skin. The prisoner has lost all control now and he's moaning and calling out to his God.

Suddenly the crowd falls silent again. Did they really hear that? The giant's arm falls to his side and hangs limply. He stares at the prisoner slack-jawed. The prisoner is oblivious - lost in his private world of sensation. He continues to gasp. "Oh God - That's so good, please. Please don't stop. I've been bad. I need to be punished. Hurt me, please. It feels so good....

The giant turns to the Centurion overseeing the scourging. He throws the whip at his feet in disgust.

"Which one of you idiots thought we should buy our floggers from Daisy!"
 
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prettyserpentine said:
Bert, I love your stories, they make me laugh so much.

Thank you!
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That makes me so happy it practically qualifies as sex :)

Thank you! :)

*edit* Just in case there's any misunderstanding, that comment refers to the fact that I'm always very pleasantly surprised when people like the stuff I've written. Sad but true.... :)
 
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Re: my new hat.

I say as Hobbes the tiger (from Calvin and Hobbes, of course) said:

"What's the point of being cool if you don't get to wear a sombrero?"

:cattail:
 
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