I'm not a Veteran but have represented many over the years. Where I live, there is a big military presence. I have to disagree with your last post. Just talk to a few drone pilots for a while and you will change your mind about PTSD. It's real. These guys aren't faking it.
I agree PTSD is real, but false positives are very common.
"They acknowledge that PTSD may be underdiagnosed in military settings and in the developing world, with limited psychiatric resources. But elsewhere, they argue that PTSD is often conflated with normal responses to difficult situations" https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/is ... diagnosed/
I am questioning Rittenhouse's PTSD diagnosis.
"I have the type of (REAL) job where I can choose how to spend my time," says Marcus.
I'm not a Veteran but have represented many over the years. Where I live, there is a big military presence. I have to disagree with your last post. Just talk to a few drone pilots for a while and you will change your mind about PTSD. It's real. These guys aren't faking it.
I agree PTSD is real, but false positives are very common.
"They acknowledge that PTSD may be underdiagnosed in military settings and in the developing world, with limited psychiatric resources. But elsewhere, they argue that PTSD is often conflated with normal responses to difficult situations" https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/is ... diagnosed/
I am questioning Rittenhouse's PTSD diagnosis.
So, what makes you think the diagnosis is wrong? Just because some are misdiagnosed, doesn't mean Rittenhouse couldn't be suffering from PTSD. He is young and perhaps more susceptible to PTSD due to his age. Sure, there is a battle of the victims possibility. I like to point to my client's suffering if plausible as it lessens the effect of the other victims. But what part of the actual diagnosis makes you think it is suspect other than there is a possibility of such like there is a possibility of anything?
Myth is misused by the powerful to subjugate the masses all too often.
How did you come to the conclusion to question his diagnosis?
- Doc
Simply because PTSD is over-diagnosed in the US and because the diagnosis helps him. Is there a reason why we shouldn't question his PTSD diagnosis? You don't question it?
"I have the type of (REAL) job where I can choose how to spend my time," says Marcus.
How did you come to the conclusion to question his diagnosis?
- Doc
Simply because PTSD is over-diagnosed in the US and because the diagnosis helps him. Is there a reason why we shouldn't question his PTSD diagnosis? You don't question it?
Ok, that's what I thought. You just want to say that there is a possibility that the PTSD diagnosis is wrong in this case.
Myth is misused by the powerful to subjugate the masses all too often.
He could, but statistically he is probably just fine. I couldn't find statistics for PTSD, but here are some for other mental disorders. Makes you really question psychiatry.
Multiple studies have consistently shown that only 30% to 40% of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder actually meet the criteria for the condition.
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that about half of people referred to a clinic with a schizophrenia diagnosis didn’t have schizophrenia.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health also discovered that only 38.4% of adults with clinician-identified depression met the 12-month criteria for depression, despite most participants being prescribed and using psychiatric medications.
Another study found that as many as half of obsessive-compulsive disorder cases are misdiagnosed.
How did you come to the conclusion to question his diagnosis?
- Doc
Simply because PTSD is over-diagnosed in the US and because the diagnosis helps him. Is there a reason why we shouldn't question his PTSD diagnosis? You don't question it?
Perhaps ptsd is over diagnosed, but I can’t really say. I’m not in the field and I don’t have a ptsd diagnosis so I don’t really know what the process is. I also don’t know who diagnosed the Ritters, nor do I know what their credentials are and what their diagnosis history is, so it’s hard for me to say one way or the other.
Perhaps ptsd is over diagnosed, but I can’t really say. I’m not in the field and I don’t have a ptsd diagnosis so I don’t really know what the process is. I also don’t know who diagnosed the Ritters, nor do I know what their credentials are and what their diagnosis history is, so it’s hard for me to say one way or the other.
- Doc
Exactly! So we don't have enough information to conclude Rittenhouse really has PTSD, but statistically he is probably just fine. I just shared some interesting numbers. Therefore, we can question Rittenhouse's diagnosis. Especially because of all the politics involved in this case.
"I have the type of (REAL) job where I can choose how to spend my time," says Marcus.
