Canadian Politics Today

The endless attempts to expand the definitions of words renders the words meaningless. In this case, it also devalues the experiences of people who suffer experience the most serious traumas (soldiers, violent crime victims, etc).

Until recently PTSD was universally understood to be a serious and debilitating condition. Applying that term to people experiencing less serious/trivial traumas means the seriousness of PTSD is debased and people no longer know what it means when people claim to have PTSD. This is not a good thing and means people who are really suffering from PTSD may not be taken as seriously as before.

Revisionist nonsense. What has happened is so many people crave the victim label and the social status that goes with it that they look for terms that carry a lot of emotional weight and high jack those terms to make their trivial claims to victimhood to be more profound than they are.

The bottom line is if "PTSD" is going to be expanded to mean anything from seeing babies burned to feeling bad because your boss grabbed your ass then the term no longer has a useful meaning. This also means it will be necessary to find out exactly why someone suffers from PTSD before one can determine what level of sympathy/support is appropriate. For many of the more trivial claims of PTSD the most appropriate response will be "grow up and stop whining". It is mystery why people think that making language meaningless is a useful approach to these issues.

The bottom line is if "PTSD" is going to be expanded to mean anything from seeing babies burned to feeling bad because your boss grabbed your ass then the term no longer has a useful meaning.

I think it has plenty of useful meaning to people who are capable of seeing gradients. I can see how one would have trouble, however, if they were forced to view things as strictly white or black/the same or different.

There is the real strawman argument. Having your trust betrayed in someone you have to deal with everyday and who has power over you, such as the ass grabbing boss, is a far cry from your toe stubbing nonsense.

“These comments have caused me great stress, and have negatively affected my work environment,”

[sarc]Who are you to judge the pain caused by stubbing  your toe? If someone says that their experience recurring nightmares and other PTSD symptoms then you have NO right to dispute. You must accept the self-selected diagnosis and demand punishment for the people responsible.[/sarc]

The stupid thing is our society has gotten to the point were the sarcasm is actually the reality and we get people like you willing to blindly defend the claims of any self-identified victim as long as they belong to one of the anointed victim groups. This needs to stop. With PTSD it could start by dismissing PTSD claims unless there is real and serious trauma which could be the trigger. Without he trauma any psychological issues are likely pre-existing.