[HPforGrownups] OT: PTSD

[Monika Huebner]

No: HPFGUIDX 11050

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:26:18 -0000, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>You forgot one of the diagnostic criteria: if your attorney tells you 
>you have it. I know PTSD is real, but I've been soured on it. I handle 
>lawsuits in my work (the risk management side of safety/risk 
>management) and I've seen allegations of PTSD from people with a 
>broken arm. It's God's gift to the plaintiff's bar. And the setting of 
>diagnostic criteria is not just a sceintific, but an ideological and 
>political act as well.

Yes, of course you are right. There are people who abuse it and there
will always be. I think you can always fake psychological symptoms as
well as psychosomatic pains, and I assume it is *very* difficult to
make the difference between people who are really suffering and those
who only want some easy money, so to say. It's a dilemma, but how can
you solve it?

>I don't know if Harry is going to have PTSD in the clinical, 
>diagnostic sense; but he's going to be beat up pretty badly in this 
>war, and he's going to suffer. A lot.

I have never put forward that *Harry* had PTSD (I don't think so, that
was someone else), I have only tried to explain the underlying
mechanism of the disorder. It was my impression that someone had said
you can't develop the disorder if you don't develop it immediately,
and that's not true. Harry won't get PTSD in the canon because he is
the hero and it would prevent him from fighting Voldemort effectively.

Monika


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