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Old 17-03-2008, 02:31 AM
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I guess I beleive it is one's responsibilty to provide an indivdual with the resources that enable them to make up their own mind.
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Get me quoting myself ha ha!

I wanted to ensure that I do not get totally dragged back in to this debate I accept that we all come from different places of undersatning.

I guess I quoted myself as I wanted to be more exact:

The phenomena surrounding PTSD has not yet reached a difnitive consensus within the field of science. My therapist who is classed as a trauma expert (in the U.K anyway), does not agree that PTSD is incurable. She told me that there is continuim from lets say 0 to 100 for ease of example, that PTSD experiences are correalated too. Depending on the type(s)of trauma and the time frame that they were experienced over depends on how badly the individual's personality has been damaged. Thus, highlighting where they fit on the continuim, rather like line of best fit! PTSD, treatment and prognosis is all about 'individual differences'. Therefore, it stands to reason that you cannot commit to defining PTSD as incurable!

Is PTSD terminal like,lets say for arguments sake, cancer? There is cancer and then there is terminal cancer, which is PTSD then? Some people recover fully from cancer even though all the odds were stacked against them, I would argure that their 'strenth of mind' could be attributed to their recovery. The mind is a powerful tool as we PTSD'ers know all to well. So lets not take away that aspect by getting wrapped up in scientifc statistics. Afterall, statistics can seem to say exactly what the science behind them wants it too!

Therefore, I believe that it is responsible to guide people to resources that enable them to make their own educated and balanced choice. Which I believe this site does!

With power comes responsibilty, me (and who ever said it before me )

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