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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rushie, post: 2606262, member: 1285&quot;]I used to think of PTSD as what affects a soldier who underwent something like the trenches of the First World War. Extreme and sustained emotional trauma over a period of time. Not just seeing dead bodies but lying under dead bodies to hide from the enemy, having multiple close friends blown up in front of you, and enduring this for weeks or months on end.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then it seemed the definition was expanded. Only one traumatic incident could trigger it. Then it was expanded to include non-combat related trauma. A rape and now maybe even just a grope will cause a case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Right now I&#039;m unsure exactly what PTSD is supposed to be. I&#039;ve always been under the impression that psychologically healthy people will recover from a discrete or very short term trauma within months or a year or two, it&#039;s more a temporary emotional injury than a disorder. But to transform a person who started out healthy into a lasting PTSD disability I would think should take more sustained stress over a longer period of time, or an extremely broad stress affecting multiple areas of life such as having your wife, children, workplace mates and home all destroyed in a single natural disaster.</p><p><br /></p><p>Expanding the definition of PTSD beyond the most rigorous standard makes me suspect people of having underlying disorders prior to the event. I&#039;m not saying it isn&#039;t real, but I&#039;m implying that the traumatic event itself then becomes only a trigger, not the true cause. I don&#039;t know how well the military screens out such underlying disorders, some of which don&#039;t manifest until adulthood anyway, I can see how they&#039;d be missed in 18 year old recruits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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