Yokohammer wrote:Wage Slave wrote:Agreed.We do not know what the trauma was or if he has a reliable diagnosis. It may be that there was a significant trauma - Afghanistan and Iraq, among other places, are capable of delivering that. However, if it is affected rather than real PTSD then shame on him - That's as bad or even worse than what the police did.
Yes. People have different thresholds, and for some a severe grilling by the gestapo or just plain old bullying will do it, especially if they're already on the edge. Lots of it going around up here after 3/11 by the way, and I suspect there are plenty of simmering cases ready to boil over into full-on symptoms when a suitable trigger comes along. It can be difficult to pinpoint the root cause. I'll go back and check the article again, but I think the claim is that the incident "worsened" the guy's PTSD?
Be right back after a quick check ...
EDIT: Yup, the wording is: 「当時患っていたPTSD(心的外傷後ストレス障害)の症状が悪化したなど・・・」, which translates roughly as "exacerbated the PTSD symptoms he was suffering from at the time". So there ya go, the claim isn't that the incident gave him PTSD, but that it aggravated the symptoms of an existing condition.
And yes, without question 3/11 was sufficient trauma to cause it for a very large number of people.