Yep, we did at that, and now I just reread the above, and it makes me even more sceptical.
When Johnson was discharged, she was still concerned as to whether she was bringing home the right baby. DNA testing later confirmed the baby's identity, but the lawsuit claims Johnson has post-traumatic stress disorder, and is unable to return to work because she is obsessed by the possibility that she may lose her baby. She is unable to take anti-depressants because she is breastfeeding Emily, who is now nearly five months old.
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Johnson, 41, and her husband, Nicholas, had been trying to have a baby for ten years. They talked to a doctor about fertility treatments, but opted against it, saying they would leave the decision in God's hands. Johnson eventually was able to get pregnant on her own in January of 2004. According to the suit, Johnson was surprised and elated by the news.
The loss of consortium claim alleges that because of his wife's trauma, Nic Johnson has been deprived of marital intimacy with his wife.
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So, they are actually sueing because apparently, he can't have sex with his wife now? Secondly, she is claiming to have been diagnosed with PTSD after what I read above as a "natural birth perceived", as she there is nothing about an actual traumatic occurance at the birth, nor even talk about a life threatening occurance during the birth, all of which would be need to be actually diagnosed with PTSD.
My discussion about this with Kerrie-Ann led me to explain what criteria one must have to be capable of being diagnosed with PTSD, which basically means, you couldn't even have it unless something like the following happens.
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The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present: (1) the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others
(2) the person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Note: In children, this may be expressed instead by disorganized or agitated behavior |
Do you think the reaction of a woman being given the wrong baby to breastfeed, as a unique case, could cause or falls within, the actual guidelines above quoted from the
DSM IV-TR to be clinically diagnosed with PTSD? Maybe, just maybe, what she suffered was traumatic to her, but by no means falls within the stated guidelines for diagnosis of PTSD, however; it most certainly does fall within the guidelines of PostTraumatic Stress (PTS) or otherwise known, PostTraumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS), one in the same. PTS is curable, which means she will get over it, where PTSD is not curable, and a person will never get over it, past it, or around it.
Unless there are circumstances previous to this which is unbeknown to the court of law that this is prevailing, a lawyer could have a pretty good time with this diagnosis of PTSD in this case, because if they sent her to trauma specialists, they could just get a more accurate response in regard to diagnosis, instead of any old physician with little to no experience with PTSD making the call for diagnosis themselves, as many seem to do... misdiagnose that is.