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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Not to be confused with PMS - which is far more horrifying to experience and even more horrifying to witness.

Contents

Causes of PTSD

Like most disorders, there is a legitimate form and a less legitimate form. Although his being the internet there is no way to fucking tell.

Legitimate Reasons To Have PTSD

Some argue these are IRL reasons to pull out your own hair and eat it. Others are inflicted with a sense of sadism and feel that the fact these were real events, which happened to real people and left them badly traumatized is funny. Who can blame them?

Less Legitimate Reasons To Have PTSD

As though being raped, blown up or somehow mutilated was not funny enough there are plenty of people who haven't been traumatized but like to pretend they have been. For some reason they think this means they will receive sympathy. They have clearly not been on the internet for long.

Victims

Although between 50-90% of people experience trauma in their life, only about 8% of these people will get PTSD (this are fact because it's on Wikipedia).

The people most likely to get PTSD are:

A Known cause of Post Traumatic Stress:
Australia

Related Disorders

Survivor Syndrome

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder meets Godwin's Law. The survivors of so-called "concentration camps" exhibited strange behavior such as depression, nightmares and guilt. Clearly they must have some bizarre disorder unknown to science which cannot be readily explained.

Acute Stress Reaction

When the body brings itself to the brink of death for no apparent reason. The patient does not have any form of mental illness or any existing neuroses; the body's system simply overreacts.

Possible causes: God hates you.

Emotional Dysregulation

Screaming, cutting and threatening to commit suicide over a broken plate or some shit. It is better known by it's official DSM-IV-TR title: chronic butthurt attention whore emo faggotry disorder.

A Very Grave Example of DSM


Post-abduction Syndrome

See above.

Post-abortion Syndrome

See above.

Post-cult Trauma

See above. Exactly the same fucking thing.

Cures

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See Also



Donvito.gif Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is part of a series on Diseases and Disorders.
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