Re: reign over me and ptsd

[Guest guest]

Good movie. One thing though, I think that many Adult Surviviors of Child Abuse

feel that, since they didn't experience some tragic natural disaster, that their

experience isn't credible. What about when the trauma is experienced every day

over a span of years? That should count as PTSD as well.

walkingto_happiness wrote: Hi everyone

I just saw the movie Reign Over Me with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle,

and I need to share with the group about this movie. Adam Sandler

plays this man with PTSD, and Don Cheadle is a friend who tries to

help him. It was the best depiction of non-war-related PTSD I have

seen on film.

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[Guest guest]

The only criteria for the trauma in PTSD is that it be so searing that it

creates the dysfunction. It also doesn't matter if another person would have

reacted differently, all that matters is that it affected the survivor in the

manner it did. In my view it doesn't matter if it happened once or everyday for

a year or a life time. Trauma is trauma, it is an absolute.

Be strong

Re: reign over me and ptsd

Good movie. One thing though, I think that many Adult Surviviors of Child Abuse

feel that, since they didn't experience some tragic natural disaster, that their

experience isn't credible. What about when the trauma is experienced every day

over a span of years? That should count as PTSD as well.

walkingto_happiness <walkingto_happiness @yahoo.com> wrote: Hi everyone

I just saw the movie Reign Over Me with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle,

and I need to share with the group about this movie. Adam Sandler

plays this man with PTSD, and Don Cheadle is a friend who tries to

help him. It was the best depiction of non-war-related PTSD I have

seen on film.

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[Guest guest]

I understand its just that one of the main sorrows of adult children of abuse is

that they often don't get their pain validated. They are told to get over it,

move one, so what at least you aren't in an earthquake. I just want to point out

the trauma that happens every day without the natural (or man made) enormous

disasters.

Lilly Blue wrote: The only criteria for the trauma in

PTSD is that it be so searing that it creates the dysfunction. It also doesn't

matter if another person would have reacted differently, all that matters is

that it affected the survivor in the manner it did. In my view it doesn't matter

if it happened once or everyday for a year or a life time. Trauma is trauma, it

is an absolute.

Be strong

Re: reign over me and ptsd

Good movie. One thing though, I think that many Adult Surviviors of Child Abuse

feel that, since they didn't experience some tragic natural disaster, that their

experience isn't credible. What about when the trauma is experienced every day

over a span of years? That should count as PTSD as well.

walkingto_happiness wrote: Hi everyone

I just saw the movie Reign Over Me with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle,

and I need to share with the group about this movie. Adam Sandler

plays this man with PTSD, and Don Cheadle is a friend who tries to

help him. It was the best depiction of non-war-related PTSD I have

seen on film.

------------ --------- --------- ---

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Access, No Cost. W00t