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0 pointsdave_sullivan5y ago0 comments

Guy tells an interesting story from his own experience and this dude wants to quibble about specific definitions and diagnostic criteria, this is the pedantry HN is famous for.

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tolbish5y ago· 3 in thread

Going to have to disagree with you. There is a significant difference between going through something that really sucks, and being traumatized. Based on the information presented thus far, OP is going through the former.

rl35y ago

>There is a significant difference between going through something that really sucks, and being traumatized. Based on the information presented thus far, OP is going through the former.

Yeah losing all your savings working on shit that didn't matter in the end while wasting years of your life isn't traumatizing at all. Glad you cleared that up for them.

At what point does it become traumatizing? After a person in that circumstance falls into one hellish layer of depression after another and decides to finally end it?

sneak5y ago

There is a specific set of objective diagnostic criteria for PTSD.

Nobody is saying that those experiences aren't traumatic or stressful. What we're saying is that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a specific thing with a specific definition, distinct from "the set of all people who have experienced trauma as the result of stress".

https://www.brainline.org/article/dsm-5-criteria-ptsd

kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj5y ago

Those are entirely subjective and you can't tell someone what makes them traumatized

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