Vimeo Calls It "Playground PTSD"
That's their name for the feeling of having somebody say your video sucks, which is sooo much like the horribleness soldiers deal with in war.
As the friend of mine who sent me the link wrote: "Oh, get over it."
I did a column on this -- the way many people now are quick to claim to have "PTSD":
Tales from your PTSD support group:THEM: "I was held captive with a burlap bag over my head and beaten with electrical cords."YOU: "I'm right there with you, bro. This dude I was dating told me his Ferrari was paid for, and it turned out to be leased!"
YOU: "My boyfriend pretended he was buying a mansion, but he really lives with his parents."THEM: "That's terrible. Can you help me put on my prosthetic leg?"
Sure, according to Pat Benatar, "love is a battlefield." But spending three months fighting with a sociopathic boyfriend doesn't leave you ducking for cover whenever a car backfires like a guy who did three tours of IED disposal in Iraq and came home with most of the parts he went in with.
Claiming to have PTSD because of the slightest thing does go along with how stylish it is these days, especially on college campuses, to find offense in the slightest thing.
This is horribly insulting to real victims of PTSD. As Mary Baker Eddy once said, "A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it."
Just come out with a new disease, and everyone will claim to have it.
As one who carries a PTSD diagnosis, I have one question for those who claim to suffer from it: "When were you diagnosed?" Chances are, they decided for themselves that they have PTSD and haven't bothered to seek the therapy necessary to make this determination.
However, I must insert one minor clarification. You do not need to have gone to war to suffer from PTSD. There are traumatic experiences outside the battlefield. If someone, for instance, suffered through a housefire and watched their children being burned to death, I would readily accept their claim that they've been diagnosed with PTSD.
Patrick at February 28, 2016 7:22 AM
My middle daughter says she's seen this kind of thing where she's going to college. While some students are in real pain and suffer from staggering problems, there are plenty of others who where their neuroses as badges of honor. Maybe it's a way of getting attention or sympathy without actually having to accomplish anything?
She even told me about one girl who claimed that, due to anxiety and depression, she couldn't have a job. Of course, that didn't stop her from smoking copious amounts of weed while running up her student debt (or running through her parents' money).
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at February 28, 2016 10:54 AM
> When were you diagnosed?
I have no doubt many do have that diagnosis. Basically, therapy is filled with degreed unethical idiot clowns who are ready and eager to diagnose their clients with the newest novel garments.
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jerry at February 28, 2016 10:57 AM
I suggest that over half the domestic PTSD cases are magnified by the idea that the victim should remain a victim, rather than just get on with life.
A child will cry if Mommy is watching, and I see little indication that people grow up beyond this.
Dad was on Guadalcanal with MAG-23, when Henderson Field was named. Later, he despised Vietnam vets' crying, pointing out that the battlefield is a specific place where one fought, and once you survived to leave it, it was time to be thankful and live life.
If you don't learn to eat what is set before you and recognize when it's time for a change, you're setting yourself up for a lifetime of suffering; if you enjoy the attention of pity parties, you're still handicappiing yourself.
Radwaste at February 28, 2016 11:12 AM
"he despised Vietnam vets' crying"
Men have cried in all wars. Why focus on Vietnam. I was not aware that more Vietnam vets cry than other wars. Am I missing something?
Vietnam Vet, 11B40 1967 - 1968
Dave B at February 28, 2016 1:44 PM
Apparently, the last half of my comment.
Instead, that generation was encouraged to continue crying for television cameras, and produced kids who are now the helicopter parents of children who cannot do anything without a "safe space".
I'm not claiming to be a tough guy. I just know one or two.
Radwaste at February 28, 2016 2:09 PM
"Instead, that generation was encouraged to continue crying for television cameras, and produced kids who are now the helicopter parents of children who cannot do anything without a "safe space"."
Wow. Just wow. We know a different history of Vietnam vets and their offspring. I guess I had a much different experience having lived in California, Texas and Minnesota. Although only one of my three children is still in college, not one of them does a safe space.
Dave B at February 28, 2016 2:23 PM
>I have no doubt many do have that diagnosis.
And I have no doubt that most of them don't.
Patrick at February 28, 2016 5:08 PM
Yeah, I've heard that BS from WWII vets too.
Apparently fighting for a few days and then drinking wine for a week in Italy was somehow less stressful than constant hit-and-run guerrilla warfare in Vietnam.
Go figure.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at February 28, 2016 6:39 PM
I guess ya'll missed the part about Guadalcanal...
...and didn't recognize that not all Vietnam vets cried. I didn't say they all did.
Somebody also doesn't know how hard the Italian campaign was in WW2, either.
This isn't a biggest dick contest. It's about what you do when you're not on the battlefield any more.
Celebrate the fact that you're still here!
Radwaste at February 28, 2016 7:20 PM
"This isn't a biggest dick contest."
And yet you brag about Dad's put-down of men fighting a war he didn't have to endure.
I don't recall - ever - a Vietnam vet trashing the men who fought at Guadalcanal.
Although a number of my generation are mystified why the WWII vets so enthusiastically supported invading Vietnam after they'd gone through war themselves.
Meh. Probably all that free booze at the American Legion bar.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at February 28, 2016 7:33 PM
Given Eddy's antipathy for modern medicine, it's not surprising she would be dismissive of new diagnoses of yet-undiscovered syndromes and maladies.
Nonetheless, she has a point about the faddishness of being the victim of the latest chic disease.
Conan the Grammarian at February 29, 2016 9:35 AM
"Instead, that generation was encouraged to continue crying for television cameras, "
A lot of Vietnam vets were despised and publicly humiliated when they returned. The Left demeaned them for "not having the balls" to dodge the draft (like the draft-dodgers were soooooooo courageous, right?). Some of the Right despised them for losing the war (not something they had any control over; it was Washington that lost the war). A lot of those guys were not given an opportunity to re-integrate with society. Instead, their pathos was exploited by politicians and the media. It's one of the most shameful episodes in American history. So I can understand if more of them had post-war mental problems than for other wars.
Cousin Dave at February 29, 2016 10:48 AM
"And yet you brag about Dad's put-down of men fighting a war he didn't have to endure."
Wow. You really haven't heard of Guadalcanal...
And Cousin Dave gets it.
Radwaste at March 1, 2016 9:03 AM
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