Hey Bob,

Veiled hit it on the head. It helps users find what is relevant to them faster, more accurately, than stuffing about having to look at every post. Editors look at every post, not other members... though editors do not reply to every post, just checking them for correctness. Members make up the bulk of communication, so helping them to find relevant conversations faster, is in eveyone's best interest. Any quality forum with quality editorial guidelines, editors and so forth, edit thread titles, threads, posts, etc etc... I have been in the game a long time to know.

Bob, how long did this occur too you? Was this your entire growing up? Who diagnosed you with PTSD as a result of this? I ask this, because I am wondering whether it is more anxiety than full PTSD, as significant trauma outside of normal life trauma must occur for the mind to chemically imbalance. Basically, the mind must be so terrified, it breaks and neurologically imbalances the right and left hemispheres.

This isn't scaling down your abuse, if anything to me, hopefully you can be healed fully, cured as such, if your issues have stemmed more self esteem, anxiety and depression issues, rather than actual physical abuse to the extent beyond normal growing up smacks and so forth, or sexual abuse would certainly do it.

If you had sexual abuse, which I am not sure if you meant that above or not, then your sexual abuse would actually be what has given you PTSD, not emotional abuse as such. Emotional abuse though, if significant enough, will certainly give you more issues over the sexual abuse, or possibly even hiding the underlying factors of sexual abuse.