https://getupfromalltimelow.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/what-causes-ptsd/
The article covers the bases well and the fact that the PTSD criteria are fundamentally illogical in places. In fact the criteria are massively influenced by business interests and lawyers. Being perhaps the only mental illness that can be potentially “caused” by single events it is a lawyers’ paradise and a potential commercial disaster zone. This has led to the leading psychiatric minds who determine diagnoses through DSM and ICD to think “Holy S~~~ we dont want the business world blaming us for giving the lawyers rich pickings. Lets top and tail it and make it the only diagnosis in mental illness that needs six out of six criteria.”
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The article rightly mentions complex trauma being seen as ‘lesser’ but clearly has no space to look further into this. Actually complex trauma is logically far far worse. If your dad or mum kicked the s~~~ out of you or invaded you sexually or emaciated you mentally again and again and again or if some other family member or ‘friend’ did this – before you could even understand anything – logically that would be far more complex and far reaching than a single event later in life. However the deeply ignorant indviduals (ignorant of real life) who have determined these diagnoses have not worked this out. Presumably their academic credentials and psychiatric training has uniquely qualified them to make illogical and deeply inhumane assumptions. They decided that people who have traumatic reactions to repetitive childhood abuse have “disordered personalities” They also decided to treat them worse than the specimins under their microscopes and place them right at the bottom of the psychiatric heap. Hence they are sent away from the A and E and told they have to stop “attention seeking” , given 24 hours max in psychiatric hospital and generally treated as people who deserve to be professionally bullied.
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I pray to God that people so diagnosed can learn to fight this and come out on top. It is a massive human rights issue as it is for all the undiagnosed sufferers of trauma – particularly the multitude of “addicts” who occupy the joint slot with “illegal immigrants” as the most spat on people in our apology for a “society”.
johndwmacdonald 
Jackie Saulmon Ramirez
June 18, 2015
There is a great article in this month’s Scientific American MIND.
johndwm
June 18, 2015
If you find a link can you post it in the comments box and I will add it to the post. Many thanks as always Jackie!
Jackie Saulmon Ramirez
June 18, 2015
You could buy the single digital issue:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-spot-soldiers-at-risk-for-ptsd/
Jackie Saulmon Ramirez
June 18, 2015
I wish I could. The Scientific American MIND does not allow new material to be published. I get it by mail so if you can get a copy at the bookstore then it is well worth the read. Much of the brain is primed as a child while it is still developing. Children who experience abuse to any degree on a regular basis (physical, emotional, extreme fear) may have changes in the brain from that exposure. The article states that people can be identified before they go into battle/war so they are not allowed to go. It also goes into the different therapies that have some measure of success.
If you cannot find a copy there near you, maybe you could order one from the publisher or from Amazon.com: This is the issue.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/mind/2015/07-01/
johndwm
June 21, 2015
Thanks so much Jackie. I will add this to the post or repost with this added. bless you for your excellence of intent and intelligent application of fact. John