Ofcourse, when you look at the symptoms of PTSD, it would be impossible that it would not affect the way you operate in society. The difference here is what happens when you have these things in check and have dealt with the trauma and can function 'normally' again.

The question is bizarre, because in a period of managing a team of people over not so many years I saw each one go through changes which affected their daily functioning to varying extremes. There was not one who could say the way they operate is society 'was not affected' at that time. Be that through bereavement, divorce or something else.

It is the degree to which PTSD affects performance, memory, trust, mental acuity, organisational skills etc that is fundamental to normal performance in society. And it is these that are more drastically affected so that in the worst throes of it, we cannot accomplish anything.