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Not Even A Columbine
This is just another example of the casual abuse of the diagnosis PTSD in the media.
Posted in Mass Media, Observations, PTSD, Veterans
Tagged Battle Fatigue, Culture, Government, Horror, Humanity, Logic, Operational Exhaustion, Politics, Post Traumatic-Stress Disorder, Post Vietnam Syndrome, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychology, PTSD, PVS, Shell Shock, Terror, The Vietnam War, Truth, Veteran's Administration, War
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The Hyphen War
The psychological disorder and descriptive diagnosis of PTSD has undergone a gradual evolutionary change of labels over time but it is still essentially the same disorder; it’s still the same disease. Variously named, PTSD was called: Shell Shock (in World … Continue reading
Posted in Dirty Words, Government, Human Sacrifice, Humor, Mass Media, Observations, Politics, PTSD, Veterans
Tagged "The United States of America", american psychiatric association, APA, Battle Fatigue, British, Department of Veterans Affairs, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition, diagram a sentence, DSM-IV, DVA, General Sherman, Government, Grammar, Horror, Humanity, Hyphen, Hyphenation, Masters of Understatement, Operational Exhaustion, point-of-view, Politics, Post Traumatic-Stress Disorder, Post Vietnam Syndrome, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, POV, PSD, PTSD, PVS, Shell Shock, Terror, The Korean War, The Powers That Be, The Vietnam War, Truth, VA, Veteran's Administration, War, War is Hell, World War I, World War II
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