Teen Help-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

[Anonymous]

Maybe some of you watched "Frontline" on PBS tonight, an excellent program on the effects trauma has on the psyche of a large number of our military members.  
Since we all know the trauma one experiences inside WWASPS/Teen Help programs, here's a web site, posted at PBS/Frontline, that might help teens (and parents) alike:  http://www.sidran.org/

[RobertBruce]

Spelled Dahlongea wrong, but still so many interesting verifable facts.


http://www.heal-online.org/hiddenlake.htm

[Anonymous]

ptsd is a serious disorder. i find this all so frightening.

[Perrigaud]

Seems like anything can cause a disorder. Disorder? Yeah.

[Anonymous]

For someone that's actually been to a WWASPS school, How do they cause PTSD?

[Perrigaud]

I don't suffer from it. I was in WWASP.

[Antigen]

On 2005-03-10 18:32:00, Anonymous wrote:

"For someone that's actually been to a WWASPS school, How do they cause PTSD?  "

Well, trauma causes PTSD. I don't know if I can really go along w/ the idea that it's a disorder, though. I think any response that seems to be the norm among people who experience similar stimuli can't rightly be called a disorder.

Here's a quick rundown according to the military.
http://members.tripod.com/~ptsdfamily/ptsd.htm

Ever gotten into a car wreck? And, for a time, driving at all or driving on a similar road or seeing a similar car will cause your hear to skip? That's post traumatic stress. It's not a disorder. It's normal.

I was never in a WWASP program but a lot of ppl who had been in various other, similar programs also experience some or all of the symptoms of PTSD. I don't suffer from it either. I quite enjoy it. (jk, though insomnia does sometimes provide me a nice stretch of quiet solitude that I really do enjoy)

Note that it is not necessary to have been tortured in the classical sense. A perceived threat to wellbeing, wittnessing injury or death of another or even of an animal can do it.

As to how to deal, honestly, I think the real cause is a shock to your perception of what can happen in this life. You come into this world feeling safe and invincible and then BLAM!, something unimaginable actually happens to you or right in front of you. Then you have to go through the process of weaving this new reality into a world view that you can live with.

 

All we ask is to be let alone.
-- Jefferson Davis (1808-1889): First Message to the Confederate Congress, March,1861.

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[BuzzKill]

I think the "disorder" part comes from the fact that it can have a significant detrimental effect on the person's quality of life.
Also, maybe from the fact it can be treated and the person relieved from the symptoms.

[Anonymous]

In 1952 the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) contained only three "disorders."

By 1980 there was a nearly ten-fold increase in the number of child disorders.  In 1987, "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" (ADHD) was literally voted into existence by the APA committee members and enshrined in the DSM.  Within a year 500,000 children in America alone were diagnosed.

17 million schoolchildren worldwide have now been diagnosed with so-called mental disorders and prescribed cocaine-like stimulants and powerful
anti-depressants as treatment.