How do you tell if somebody has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Or if they are just zoning out alot?
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I don't think post traumatic stress disorder is real. or rather should i say that most people that think they have it are just whiny pussies that use it as an excuse to bitch about shit. if someone had it you'd notice a major change in thier ability to function on a normal level not just zoning out a lot.
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Well, if it's from 'Nam, you can just start shooting at them. If they get all bitchy or start crying, they most likely have it.
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Originally Posted by Ellis
Well, if it's from 'Nam, you can just start shooting at them. If they get all bitchy or start crying, they most likely have it.
what if the person doesnt do that, but seems to become scared, and stands there , seeming zoned out? **
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Ah, well in that case, they may just have brain damage.
But seriously, as you most likely have need for information, my experiences with PTS disorder (three friends and one teacher) have been varied.
The teacher would freak out and hide if you dropped a book suddenly or made a loud noise
One friend would get violent when a loud noise was made.
The other two just started bawling at random stuff that reminded them of whatever.
Basically, it should just have a different name.
The "I cant deal with shit" disorder. Not that its their fault, or theyre worse for it, its just now thet you cant call it shellshock, its not as fun.
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What if the Zoning out is triggered by certain songs, movies, books, pictures, or similar stuff?
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What if the Zoning out is triggered by certain songs, movies, books, pictures, or similar stuff?
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well, hell man, when i here Tool's live PushIT, i about cry and go compleatly zoned out .........just like that, THAT'S NOT PTS,
that's just being emotional.......we all have things that bring us back to something that gives some overwelming feelings........
and im kinda with MG on this one,maybe with Vets but not as much with just normal people......
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well, hell man, when i here Tool's live PushIT, i about cry and go compleatly zoned out .........just like that, THAT'S NOT PTS,
that's just being emotional.......we all have things that bring us back to something that gives some overwelming feelings........
and im kinda with MG on this one,maybe with Vets but not as much with just normal people......
thought so, but was just curious about P.T.S. in general.
*shrugs*
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P.T.S.D. just a pc term for fucked in the head. What causes it, everything, anything, or nothing. So blame it on a war, some blame it on their fourth child. Basically if you have a bad day, the next day you have P.T.S.D.
Get over it, have a drink like the rest of us and stop making new excuses for being mental.
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Some people also blame it on gettibf brutally ***** of watching their families and friends murdered before their eyes. Some people have an excuse to be able to say they've got it. Others don't. For some reason I don't think drinking is gonna help the triple amputee shrapnel victim who regrets not dying with his friends in that blast every day. ;-)
THIS is the kind of post I should do in Binary.
Re: How do you tell if somebody has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
It's not shell-shock, or zoning-out.
PTSD is where you are so stressed by warfare, that you are on edge.
You think you are still in combat, when you are home.
You freak out, looking for the enemy, loading guns, etc,
when there is no reason for it.
If you are doing that, yes.
But if you are just zoning out, that is just emotional/psychological problems of a normal type.
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I think that the person was just rather absorbed by their task, and was focusing so much that they tuned out the stuff around them.
Side note: I hate Dr.Phil, and his show. **
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I majored in Psychology in University...so I would like to help clear this whole thing up. I'm going to type out the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for PTSD (Posttraumatic stress disorder) All of the criteria must be met in order to be diagnosed as PTSD
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A) The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present:
1) The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or searious injury, or a threat to the personal integrity of self or others
2) The person's response involved intense fear, helplessness or horror
B) The traumatic event is persistently reexperienced in one or more of the following ways
1) Recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts or perceptions
2) recurrent distressing dreams of the event
3) acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring
4) Intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event
5) Physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event
C) Persistant avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responsiveness, as indicated by three of the following:
1) efforts to avoid thoughts, feeling, or conversations associated with the trauma
2) efforts to avoid activities, places or people that arouse recollections of the trauma
3) inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma
4) marked diminished interest or participation in significant activities
5) feeling of detachment or estrangement from others
6) restricted range of affect (meaning emotion)
7) sense of foreshortened future
D) Persistant symptoms of increased arousal, as indicated by one of the following:
1) Difficulty falling or staying asleep
2) Irritability or outburst of anger
3) Difficulty concentrating
4) Hypervigilance
5) Exaggerated startle response
E) Duration of the disturbance is mor than 1 month
F) The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning.
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So that is the clinical diagnostic criteria. KEEP IN MIND....a professionally trained psychologist with access to the entire set of DSM-IV categories is the only one who can actually diagnose it....the above is just the guidelines for the specific disorder...plenty of other things also come into play when diagnosing any psychological disorder.
And that ladies and gents, is my nerdyness for the day...
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wow, that's interesting...
...I think my dog had PTSD.
