I'm glad I read this thread, thanks for starting it Marlene, because I didn't know the whole idea of being predisposed to PTSD was a theory... I have always been told that it's a fact, and that, consequently, if I hadn't had the predisposition, I never would have developed PTSD. I know it is not intended as such, but it always makes me feel like I am flawed in some way, or it is somehow my fault that I have PTSD. And I also I find it hard to believe that anyone in my situation, having the same thing happen to them, could not be traumatized. But the doctors have told me over and over that a person who was not predisposed would have symptoms for a few months only, and then get over it.

And LOL yeah doctors sure are full of themselves!!