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Bitch people survived this for thousands of years.
Try 99.9%
being “triggered” by “blood” doesn’t count as PTSD or even clinical trauma, kiddies!
After speaking with some medical service providers at work and in my personal life, I really fear this PTSD is everywhere and everyone has it! You stubbed your toe in the second grade? You have PTSD!! bullshit is being pushed in the tertiary therapeutic setting. I've had multiple child psychologists, speech/language pathologists, behavioral analysists and such tell me that nearly every child they've interacted with has PTSD. Almost always, the PTSD is a result of typical grade-school bullying or not getting the same expensive gaming console for Christmas as their peers or other such typical childhood crap. It didn't bother me until I heard this shit from multiple people working in different settings with vastly different clientele. PTSD (always from childhood) has somehow become synonymous with typical childhood struggles for some people who should know better.
I agree that PTSD is being overdiagnosed, but take into consideration that you're talking to CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS, better known as people you take a child to when they have a problem. Same with the other professions you listed. Of course they're going to tell you that every kid they treat has some sort of problem. That's literally their job.
Only if they're complete and utter quacks. You don't go to an oncologist and have them tell you you have 15 different kinds of cancer because you have a zit.
I don't think you understand the severity of a
PTSD diagnosis and how uncommon it is. It's not a diagnosis to be handed out flippantly. I'm not saying none of the kids they see actually have PTSD; what I'm saying is that childhood PTSD is the 90s' ADHD and the 00s' Autism. It's being overdiagnosed on kids who don't need the treatment because it's trendy right now. Telling a kid they have PTSD unnecessarily has a whole host of potential behavioral issues that are starting to come unmasked.
And a lot of people I know born in the 2000s themselves don't have ADHD either (or they at least won't admit to having it). I can count on less than 5 fingers said people who do admit to it. Anecdotal or not, it is a sign however that times have changed.
Y'know, with the whole "Privilege Points" system on Tumblr, there are people who think they have PTSD (with no evidence or diagnosis) & are somehow more valid than people who have a professional diagnosis. Said people also think they have the right to diagnose some random kid who hit their toe on the table corner with PTSD, and that that kid is more valid than someone who's been through something like rape or having a gun held up to their head, so on and so forth.
The whole "no diganosis" thing is often equated to being poor, and not some people willfully not getting a diagnosis because they don't want their fantasy world to come crashing down. So, in some circles, you might get treated better if you claim to have PTSD & haven't gotten a diagnosis for whatever reason. It makes me think of Vade, who was told they didn't have autism by a professional, but kept insisting they did (because the doctor was wrong somehow).
I've never actually heard of the PTSD over-diagnosis or the belief that somehow all children have PTSD. The most I can say is that it sure is trendy on Tumblr, and it's easy to tell who's faking if you know someone with PTSD or actually have it (although some are more obvious than others). Maybe Tumblr runs on the mindset of "all kids have PTSD, therefore so do I"?
The whole "no diganosis" thing is often equated to being poor, and not some people willfully not getting a diagnosis because they don't want their fantasy world to come crashing down. So, in some circles, you might get treated better if you claim to have PTSD & haven't gotten a diagnosis for whatever reason. It makes me think of Vade, who was told they didn't have autism by a professional, but kept insisting they did (because the doctor was wrong somehow).
I've never actually heard of the PTSD over-diagnosis or the belief that somehow all children have PTSD. The most I can say is that it sure is trendy on Tumblr, and it's easy to tell who's faking if you know someone with PTSD or actually have it (although some are more obvious than others). Maybe Tumblr runs on the mindset of "all kids have PTSD, therefore so do I"?
I hope this isn't a powerlevel, but I was at a training for theraputic providers who specalize in working with children. A speech language pathologist and a physical therapist were giving their presentation about common childhood motor dysfunctions that the speech pathologist somehow transitioned into a talk about a specific kid they had treated together. The speech pathologist went into probably-HIPPA-violating-level detail about this kid's life and medical history and mentioned that he was nervous to go to school because he hated the way pencil sharpeners sounded. This speech pathologist loudly proclaimed that because this kid had a weirdly profound adversion to the sound of pencil sharpeners, she had decided he has PTSD. She admitted there was no traumatic event attached to the fear, but his adversion to it was PTSD. The physical therapist agreed with her half-heartedly, then moved the talk away from their shared patient and continued with what their presentation was actually about.
I stayed behind afterwards and asked some of my co-workers what they thought about it. One or two said they'd heard of various theraputic providers handing out the PTSD label willy nilly, but they were all the well-known "social justice" types or super hippy-types who were new to their practices. I asked my family members who also worked in the field and they'd heard of one or two providers who were basically laughing stocks who were handing out the PTSD diagnosis too often. They're the providers hypocondraics shop around to find.
That speech pathologist saying a kid had PTSD with no real basis shocked me because I'd never heard it before, then I found out it wasn't entirely unheard of. I knew the SLP beforehand, but I'd never heard her try handing out (unqualified) diagnoses like that. I later learned she tried it a lot. I also knew this one lady who was a child psychologist who thought everyone had every diagnosis under the sun, but she was fucking nut. She was the type to come to work crying because the flowers she saw were so beautiful or try to get you to eat her weird bread made of almond butter, coconut water, and fairy dust (it's soooo good and good for you, friends!).
PTSD is being overdiagnosed and it's been known for a little while, but it's not nearly to the levels of ADHD or Autism. And it's largely being overdiagnosed by the same providers in any given "market". I'd argue, though, that the PTSD label has way more negative connotations and societal biases than ADHD or mild autism which can be very dmanaging to an impressionable kid.
Edit: PTSD also "excuses" some rather odd behaviors at times which is why these tumblrinas attach to it- the only issues is, PTSD has bursts of these strange, extreme emotional and behavioral deviatitions, then the sufferer returns to relative normal functioning. Tumblrinas seem to think their daily defiance of social norms and their daily "non-conformity" also qualifies as PTSD. If it's a daily behavior that you don't deviate from, it's not PTSD, but it very well could be some other behavioral disturbace. PTSD is also something that should not be desired... Why you would want to live your life (or pretend to live your life) with the fear of losing your damn mind potentially at any time over a "trigger" is absolutely nuts.
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The kid's aversion to the sound of pencil sharpeners sounds more like sensory overload rather than any type PTSD - especially since there was no trauma involved regarding it - and could easily be explained by the previously-mentioned ADHD or autism.
That's very interesting, though, and it's weird to think people are just alright with a PTSD diagnosis being given out even though there's no actual trauma involved with the patient. What would be the T stand for if there was no trauma? Tater tots?
When pressed for explanation from the crowd, she said that since he was so scared of the pencil sharpener and it was a fear that lasted for years, she said (paraphrased) any psychologist would agree that this continued fear met diagnostic criteria for PTSD. She wasn't entirely clear about it, but she made it seem like she told the kid's parents about his "PTSD". The fear was enough evidence for her of trauma. I lost a lot of respect for her that day since it's 100% not a speech path's job to "diagnose" kids with psychological issues and 100% against ethical conduct for speech paths.
Anyways, back on topic. Is anyone exicted to read New Year's resolutions littered with trigger warnings? I sure fucking am. I love the "tw: gym and weight loss" posts.
There's a sense of irony in the whole "trigger warning" thing. People who actually have PTSD usually just grin and bear it around strangers, and only family and friends know about it. They tend to feel annoying if or when they have to bring up their PTSD. But the people on Tumblr want to define themselves so much that they have to remind everyone "oh im triggered by this so tag it or ur ableist!!!!", even if it's something absurd like the colour blue.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
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That speech pathologist sounds like a fucking idiot then since having a strong dislike for what's already considered an irritating sound (especially if it's an electric sharpener) can be indicative to quite a few things, particularly conditions that include sensitive hearing. Declaring that to be a sign of PTSD when she even admits that no traumatic event has occurred and therefore no reason to suspect PTSD is recklessly exceptional at best.
Sensory sensitivity can be a symptom of autism.
Based on my own education and experience, the child is certainly autistic, not PTSD.
At this point, people on tumblr just don't know the difference on being triggered and cringing at something that makes them uncomfortable. It became a competition on who has the most triggers.
It got to the point where they ask people to censor/not follow them because of your own fucking name because it's triggering to them.
Because fuck common sense, I guess.
It got to the point where they ask people to censor/not follow them because of your own fucking name because it's triggering to them.
Because fuck common sense, I guess.
The attention whoring they do on Tumblr has been around since people have been manipulating each other for sympathy, but because they are all crammed into the same space they all need to up the ante for those sweet sweet sympathy points combine with lots of begging for money. So "I have a cold" turns into "I have HIV and I only have 3 months to live, please dontate to my patreon to help cover all these medical costs". Things like "I had a bad day some dude was being a dick" turn into "I was LITERALLY RAPED when a WHITE MALE looked at me! Now I am triggered by mayonnaise and you need to give me money because I can't afford a therapist! But I can't go to a therapist because it has "rapist" in it and I am triggered by that too! MONEY PLS"
The only real problems most of these Tumblrinas have are narcissism and internet Munchhausen's.
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Hit the nail on the head mate. There's a very real social stigma attached to PTSD which can totally change how people percieve or interact with you. It's also a lot easier to lie about why you do exceptionally weird stuff or have weird ticks and outbursts than it is to admit your brain is essentially broken. Sometimes not even friends or family know. One of my best buddies keeps it from his parents even. There's a reason soldier and first responders suicide and substance abuse rates are through the roof.
Tl;Dr: PTSD is p crippling and not a funny meme badge.
