Comments on: On Recovering Without PTSD

Kimberly Dozier Was Almost Killed By A Car Bomb In Iraq; Now She Tells How She Went Past Mere Survival

[mongsee]

I apologize, somehow my comments appeared more than once. Please disregard the duplication.

Marcia Wickes

[mongsee]

I am amazed at the arrogance shown by MS.D, who apparently can diagnose and ''cure'' PTSD based on her own limited experience. When people are exposed to trauma their reactions are as varied as their personalities. What worked for her will not necessarily work for someone else and to imply that another''s suffering is (as implied) self indulgent is presumptuous and insensitive. Ms. Dozier had friends, family, the best of medical care, financial security, and attention from everyone when she was hurt. But there are many who do not have those advantages; who face lonely,physically, financially blasted futures, who cannot eloquently express themselves, who face untold horrors with very few resources to help them heal. Get off your high horse, Ms. D., and look at the conditions that the average soldier faces when returning home. They are not highly publicized, highly paid, highly protected media moguls.....they are men and women who are fighting, not reporting, suffering in silence, trying to be strong....and many of them have faced more horror in one day than someone from the protected media can imagine. You are not a soldier OR a medical doctor, so don''t diagnose or pretend to understand. You cannot.
Marcia Wickes

[mongsee]

I am amazed at the arrogance shown by MS.D, who apparently can diagnose and ''cure'' PTSD based on her own limited experience. When people are exposed to trauma their reactions are as varied as their personalities. What worked for her will not necessarily work for someone else and to imply that another''s suffering is (as implied) self indulgent is presumptuous and insensitive. Ms. Dozier had friends, family, the best of medical care, financial security, and attention from everyone when she was hurt. But there are many who do not have those advantages; who face lonely,physically, financially blasted futures, who cannot eloquently express themselves, who face untold horrors with very few resources to help them heal. Get off your high horse, Ms. D., and look at the conditions that the average soldier faces when returning home. They are not highly publicized, highly paid, highly protected media moguls.....they are men and women who are fighting, not reporting, suffering in silence, trying to be strong....and many of them have faced more horror in one day than someone from the protected media can imagine. You are not a soldier OR a medical doctor, so don''t diagnose or pretend to understand. You cannot.
Marcia Wickes

[mongsee]

I am amazed at the arrogance shown by MS.D, who apparently can diagnose and ''cure'' PTSD based on her own limited experience. When people are exposed to trauma their reactions are as varied as their personalities. What worked for her will not necessarily work for someone else and to imply that another''s suffering is (as implied) self indulgent is presumptuous and insensitive. Ms. Dozier had friends, family, the best of medical care, financial security, and attention from everyone when she was hurt. But there are many who do not have those advantages; who face lonely,physically, financially blasted futures, who cannot eloquently express themselves, who face untold horrors with very few resources to help them heal. Get off your high horse, Ms. D., and look at the conditions that the average soldier faces when returning home. They are not highly publicized, highly paid, highly protected media moguls.....they are men and women who are fighting, not reporting, suffering in silence, trying to be strong....and many of them have faced more horror in one day than someone from the protected media can imagine. You are not a soldier OR a medical doctor, so don''t diagnose or pretend to understand. You cannot.
Marcia Wickes

[hswhite2346]

After recently losing a son, who fought in Iraq, to complications from PTSD, I was very offended while watching the news on TV today. My son had counseling and medications and nothing worked. Ms. Dozier was not facing the same situations as trained soldiers. She did face a traumatic event but so did I when I found my son dead at home.

[sundog71]

Here are hyperlinks if anyone is interested in informing themselves.

Of course they had to put " A Real Illness" because apparently so many people need to be convinced
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-a-real-illness/summary.shtml

Here is a very short checklist
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-a-real-illness/does-this-sound-like-you.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTSD

Please feel free to assess remarks regarding Compensation seeking Behavior: Thats military jargon for Welfare Queen.

Here are additional links to PTSD that is not strictly military


http://www.darkness2light.org/KnowAbout/articles_pstraumatic_stress.asp

http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/education/pat_edu/womenhlth/MentalEmotion/rapetraumasynd.htm

http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/index.jsp

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml

[irishnana2]

Ms. Dozier''s commentary made me sick. She is a highly paid journalist working on her resume building career in the war zone where our brave soldiers have to protect HER. How dare her insult them by insinuating that PTSD can be "talk, talk,talked" out. It''s akin to the Tom Cruise assault on Brooke Shields for taking medication for Postpartem depression. Who does she think she is? My son is a medic attached to 3rd SFG and has served 3 tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He has seen things and done things that nothing in his life prior to enlisting prepared him for. He enlisted shortly after 9/11. He is suffering but he, like most men, doesn''t "talk about it". He sucks it up and deals and is in mental anquish for it but continues to protect the likes of Ms. Dozier. I''d like to spit in her face... that''s what she''s done to our returning vets.

[mongsee]

I am amazed at the arrogance shown by MS.D, who apparently can diagnose and ''cure'' PTSD based on her own limited experience. When people are exposed to trauma their reactions are as varied as their personalities. What worked for her will not necessarily work for someone else and to imply that another''s suffering is (as implied) self indulgent is presumptuous and insensitive. Ms. Dozier had friends, family, the best of medical care, financial security, and attention from everyone when she was hurt. But there are many who do not have those advantages; who face lonely,physically, financially blasted futures, who cannot eloquently express themselves, who face untold horrors with very few resources to help them heal. Get off your high horse, Ms. D., and look at the conditions that the average soldier faces when returning home. They are not highly publicized, highly paid, highly protected media moguls.....they are men and women who are fighting, not reporting, suffering in silence, trying to be strong....and many of them have faced more horror in one day than someone from the protected media can imagine. You are not a soldier OR a medical doctor, so don''t diagnose or pretend to understand. You cannot.
Marcia Wickes

[mongsee]

I am amazed at the arrogance shown by MS.D, who apparently can diagnose and ''cure'' PTSD based on her own limited experience. When people are exposed to trauma their reactions are as varied as their personalities. What worked for her will not necessarily work for someone else and to imply that another''s suffering is (as implied) self indulgent is presumptuous and insensitive. Ms. Dozier had friends, family, the best of medical care, financial security, and attention from everyone when she was hurt. But there are many who do not have those advantages; who face lonely,physically, financially blasted futures, who cannot eloquently express themselves, who face untold horrors with very few resources to help them heal. Get off your high horse, Ms. D., and look at the conditions that the average soldier faces when returning home. They are not highly publicized, highly paid, highly protected media moguls.....they are men and women who are fighting, not reporting, suffering in silence, trying to be strong....and many of them have faced more horror in one day than someone from the protected media can imagine. You are not a soldier OR a medical doctor, so don''t diagnose or pretend to understand. You cannot.
Marcia Wickes

[mongsee]

I am amazed at the arrogance shown by MS.D, who apparently can diagnose and ''cure'' PTSD based on her own limited experience. When people are exposed to trauma their reactions are as varied as their personalities. What worked for her will not necessarily work for someone else and to imply that another''s suffering is (as implied) self indulgent is presumptuous and insensitive. Ms. Dozier had friends, family, the best of medical care, financial security, and attention from everyone when she was hurt. But there are many who do not have those advantages; who face lonely,physically, financially blasted futures, who cannot eloquently express themselves, who face untold horrors with very few resources to help them heal. Get off your high horse, Ms. D., and look at the conditions that the average soldier faces when returning home. They are not highly publicized, highly paid, highly protected media moguls.....they are men and women who are fighting, not reporting, suffering in silence, trying to be strong....and many of them have faced more horror in one day than someone from the protected media can imagine. You are not a soldier OR a medical doctor, so don''t diagnose or pretend to understand. You cannot.
Marcia Wickes