Please delete the ptsd from infidelity thread it really out of control

[Anonymous]

This post has become very hostile with inappropriate language

[jsteele]

I just removed a bunch of posts. Feel free to report any that I missed.

[Anonymous]

NP.

It's gone off the rails again since you deleted posts. Almost all of pages 5-7 are filled with arguments about the term "PTSD," which is not at all helpful to OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP.

It's gone off the rails again since you deleted posts. Almost all of pages 5-7 are filled with arguments about the term "PTSD," which is not at all helpful to OP.

It hasn’t gone off the rails. Perhaps the first step in helping op is giving her a reality check. In any event, op hasn’t been back to respond to anyone who tried to tell her to leave so there is that. Sorry you felt triggered by some of us requesting respect and not trivializing the serious mental disorder.

[jsteele]

I've cleaned it up again. Based upon what I see in that thread, there does not appear to be any correlation between suffering from PTSD and gaining increased empathy.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:I've cleaned it up again. Based upon what I see in that thread, there does not appear to be any correlation between suffering from PTSD and gaining increased empathy.

It wasn’t meant to elicit empathy, Jeff. It was meant to educate. Any other time you would have jumped all over a poster who so openly mocks an illness. There were several posters on that threat some of which were quite vile, I agree. However, deleting my explanations as to why we shouldn’t use the medication terminology for trivial, undiagnosed things was only informative. I said several times that it doesn’t take away anything from OP’s suffering to call it what it is. I empathized with her and offered practical advice.

I don’t owe you or anyone else an explanation to earn your empathy. I suffered enough throughout my life. It’s only decent to request that medical terminology be used properly. It’s extremely disappointing you can’t see that.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:I've cleaned it up again. Based upon what I see in that thread, there does not appear to be any correlation between suffering from PTSD and gaining increased empathy.

It wasn’t meant to elicit empathy, Jeff. It was meant to educate. Any other time you would have jumped all over a poster who so openly mocks an illness. There were several posters on that threat some of which were quite vile, I agree. However, deleting my explanations as to why we shouldn’t use the medication terminology for trivial, undiagnosed things was only informative. I said several times that it doesn’t take away anything from OP’s suffering to call it what it is. I empathized with her and offered practical advice.

I don’t owe you or anyone else an explanation to earn your empathy. I suffered enough throughout my life. It’s only decent to request that medical terminology be used properly. It’s extremely disappointing you can’t see that.

As you said, many posters on that thread were quite vile. What makes you think my post was directed at you? At any rate, the point about the medical diagnosis use of "PTSD" and a more layperson's use of that term was made and remains in the thread. Hijacking the thread for an extended argument about it is unnecessary.