General Discussion

it is that medical professionals will look at PTSD, and mental health in general, in a whole new light when this is over. There is nothing worse than people who should know better that don't. People basically do not accept something is real if they have not experienced it. I was in nursing school in basic psychology when I read "feral children have deficits they never outgrow." My response was "what? who? Me?" I was orphaned at 4, suffered pervasive abuse, the only one of four to really outlive it, and I only have one surviving sibling, if you could call the life she endured "living." And if there is any upside to the tRump years, it has taught us that there are a lot of dangerous damaged people walking around untreated, and it spreads exponentially. So sorry for your pain Sophiegirl, manageable is the best we can do sometimes.