Why do you think the term Post Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI) is more appropriate than PTSD?

In this webcast, Dr. Frank Ochberg discusses PTSD vs. PTSI and the honor that comes from injury versus the stigma that comes from a disorder.

[@idrawallthingsgood2me782]

Yes.... I completely agree. I hate the label of having a mental disorder instead of a psychological injury.

[@emilyjane198]

I appreciated this. I have complex PTSD and am working on excepting this. One of the ways I have been doing this is by thinking of my brain as having an injury akin to having like a broken ankle. It makes so much more sense to my intuition and is helping me understand what happens inside of me.

[@CajunKatsan]

I had my brain scan done with Amen Clinics in Dallas. I saw the PTSI. Also I went from a 68 on the scale to an 11! Real healing of the injury. Not just coping skills. IMTT & CPT along with extreme micronutrients have changed my life! I’m healing! It’s a whole new world

[@robincoulter3949]

I'm surprised the "label makers" didn't come to this conclusion earlier.

[@PassionateFlower]

It's important for children and adult children of abusive, neglectful, or sick family members who are survivors of child abuse and other forms of childhood trauma to also get the dignity, humanity, and civility of formally receiving a Post Traumatic Stress Injury diagnosis during their recovery work as well. People should be given the same high quality treatment and dignity they get for a major knee surgery. You are not judged for having a moral failure trying to explain to your doctor that you tore your ACL during a game of indoor soccer. The focus is on treating the injury. They do an examination, they treat you with kindness and respect in their office, they don't judge your choices or behaviors or see you as unethical for hobbling around in a cast and crutches, they refer you to get an fMRI scan, then you go to surgery, they repair the tear in your knee, then they give you pain meds to rehab your knee and put you on bedrest in a cast, then 8 months of physical rehab at an outpatient center, they tell you to continue your knee strengthening exercises, then you move on with your life and the pain goes away and you just let it go and go about your business. That's how treating PTSI should be resolved. It's not about how or why you got PTSI or who or what injured you, regardless of the circumstances leading up to your INJURY, you still deserve the SAME level of care as a soldier who won a purple heart for being a war hero and got his legs blown off while saving his platoon.

[@persevere6326]

Excellent

[@manthasagittarius1]

What I wonder about is why, when the physical result of a traumatic event is most commonly thought of as a "wound," a psychiatric result would be considered differently, and thought of as a "disorder." Perhaps the reasoning is that the symptoms don't always arise immediately, and the "disorder" is seen as secondary to the "trauma." But certainly the idea of injury is much closer to the functionally disruptive nature of the symptoms.

[@rabbitcreative]

I interpret the term 'disorder' to mean there's something wrong exclusively with the person. Whereas with 'injury', my first question is, "how were you injured?". 'Disorder' conceals the environment in which the injury occurred. This should have been obvious with war-veterans. Makes you wonder...

[@rachaelclarke9268]

Forever that s why it's triggers can create a thrierd self if our trumas during our sleep and AWAKE

[@just5462]

Amen

[@sianharcourt7392]

I totally agree that PTSD shpuld be called PTSI! Great you are advocating for tjis much needed change! One other thing I think it's important not to generalise that it is only women who get raped and assaulted and that it's only men getting PTSI in the military.

[@robertleobrown5656]

Wow!