yes, thank you, exactly my idea. I didn't feel invited with the group forums because I was not part of their group but what they said about their symptoms and resulting problems was exactly what I had but I couldn't respond to that not being part of their trauma group
Also I found it difficult to read their story's about the origin of their trauma. I was (I am sorry) not interested in more horrific story's I had enough of my own. I am merely interested in PTSD not in life story's or other psychiatric diagnosis. I agree that you should talk about that with a professional in a therapeutic setting because I don't think it is helpfull for the PTSD people on this forum. You can however say something in an introduction so people can choose to read that if they are looking for a specific common origin. But I think that if people want to form specific groups that maybe those people are more focused on the trauma and wanting to talk about that than in the resulting outcome of PTSD. There are specific groups for that. However in the beginning shortly after the trauma people only want to talk about the trauma and nothing else and it is important to let them. PTSD evolves in time and than people are more willing to talk about the consequences (hopefully they can) than about the initial traumatic event. It can also be a sign of stagnation in a mourning proces, that people stay put in one stage of that bereavement proces and not go on to another stage therefore never finding closure.
Maybe PTSD is a mourning proces going wrong, maybe it is a new stage, maybe it is a sideway of a stage we didn't know of.
Well anyway all I want to say (this is a subject you can talk on forever) that I am glad that this forum focuses on ptsd and nothing else.