{"quotes":[{"text":"Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.","author":"Bessel A. van der Kolk","tags":["minimization","posttraumatic","ptsd","reality","society","society-denial","trauma","traumatic"],"id":181276,"author_id":"Bessel+A.+van+der+Kolk"},{"text":"PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.","author":"Susan Pease Banitt","tags":["emotions","healing","mental-health","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","psychology","ptsd","spirituality","stress","trauma","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized","yoga"],"id":278386,"author_id":"Susan+Pease+Banitt"},{"text":"...The vast majority of these [dissociative identity disorder] patients have subtle presentations characterized by a mixture of dissociative and PTSD symptoms embedded with other symptoms, such as posttraumatic depression, substance abuse, somatoform symptoms, eating disorders, and self-destructive and impulsive behaviors.2,10A history of multiple treatment providers, hospitalizations, and good medication trials, many of which result in only partial or no benefit, is often an indicator of dissociative identity disorder or another form of complex PTSD.","author":"Bethany L. Brand","tags":["complex-ptsd","dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-disorder","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-illness","misdiagnosis","mpd","multiple-personality-disorder","posttraumatic","psychiatric-drugs","psychiatry"],"id":290203,"author_id":"Bethany+L.+Brand"},{"text":"Much, much later. When I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will be enabled to see what was going on in my mind immediately after 11 August.I am still capable of operating mechanically as a soldier in these following days. But operating mechanically as a soldier is now all I am capable of.Martin says he is worried about me. He says I have the thousand-yard stare'.Of course, I cannot see this stare. But by now we both have more than an idea what it means.So, among all the soldiers here, this is nothing to be ashamed of. But as it really does just go with the territory we find ourselves in. It is just as equally not a badge of h.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["acute-stress-reaction","army","army-in-afghanistan","army","automaton","casualty-of-war","combat-ptsd","crock-of-shit","dead-inside","depersonalised","depersonalization","depersonalized","detached","dissociated-state","dissociative","dumb","emotionless","flashback","flashbacks","idolisation","idolized","mechanical","military","military-psychiatry","military","naive","naive-soul","no-longer-human","nothingness","numb","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic","posttraumatic-stress","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","robotic","soldier","stare","thousand-yard-stare","traumatic-stress","traumatized","true-warrior","unemotional","warrior","warrior-qoutes","wounded-warriors"],"id":403401,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}