Hollywood has discovered PTSD ...

[dogtag]

It's no longer the purview of shell-shocked veterans
now that it's properties have been discovered by the
elites. Now, just the stress of a messy divorce is enough
to bring on the symptoms, or burning the tarts a la
King Alfred will do it, or tiddles the cat throwing up on
the bedspread. It's another Me Too in the making.
Pretty soon half the stupid and useless Women in Hollywood
will be bragging about their PTSD and how they overcame
it by eating nothing but Broccoli.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...hnny-Depp.html

[Vern Humphrey]

If I woke up in a relationship with Johnny Depp, I'd be rolling on the floor crying, too.

[JB White]

People who have never been in a fight or never had a truly near brush with death think THEY know what PTSD is.
Got news for you feeble minded and spineless Hollyweirds. It's a lot more tragic than the tragedy you suffered when mommy threw away your old teddy bear.

It must really suck not being able to deal with the common $hit life hands us.

[blackhawknj]

PTSD is the cause du jour, like schizophrenia it will be a term to so overused and abused that it will lose all meaning. Like Jeff Cooper I am skeptical of it, as he wrote should be it Be necessary to display symptoms of regret and remorse after a shooting, that was an administrative matter.
Don't worry, they'll make feel-good liberal movies that will die at the box office, they'll drop it PDQ.

[Vern Humphrey]

Oh, it's definitely real -- there are some gruesome films from WWII that show men unable to walk, to sit still and so on,

My theory is there is a process you must go through -- a famous painting from WWII called "The Thousand Yard Stare" illustrates it very well. The Spartans called it "swallowing fear" and made provision for it after a battle. The men who have seen the elephant have to come to terms with it, and to assimilate the experience and understand it. If they fail, it can cause real damage.