Sanman
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And then, when you do get around to doing the actual clinical work, 9 times out of 10 these days it's patients who react to you telling them that they DON'T have PTSD with extreme negative emotional displays. It's like being an oncologist (except in reverse). I feel like I'm delivering the news of terminal stage IV cancer to a patient every time I rule out PTSD and diagnose something else. Anything else.
It's like the entire universe has warped itself around the lie/myth that every veteran has PTSD (especially if they say they do) and it is some sort of unspoken law that you never are allowed to have an opinion that differs with that one. We are going to spend DECADES undoing the medium and long-term fallout of this crap.
You should look at the recent thread on the r/Veterans Affairs subreddit where someone asks about what to do when a friend admitted to lying/exaggerating PTSD symptoms for benefits and they want to report. The amount of hate and "mind your own business" comments is quite telling.
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