Those close toĀ Donald Trump fear the former president āmay have legit PTSDā from the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally last month.
Thatās according to aĀ Vanity FairĀ report published Wednesday that claimed those in Trumpās inner circle have noticed that heās become fixated on a seven-second clip that shows the moment he nearly lost his life.
āHeās been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the headāover and over and over again,ā said a Republican close to the campaign, reportedĀ Vanity Fair.
This is insulting to people who really suffer with PTSD, and shows an ignorance of our modern understanding of trauma.
I donāt know manā¦I donāt like trump, at all, but getting intentionally targeted by an assasin, and only surviving because you unknowingly turned your head just the right way to make the bullet miss by inches seems like a legit reason to develop actual PTSD.
Theres lots of reasons to hate trump, but if you dehumanize him you run the same risk that 1940s had with hitler. If you think of him as a monster, you stop thinking of him as human. If you stop thinking of him as human, itās easy to dismiss his behavior and actions as being not something a human would do. And once you do that you open the door for it to happen in the future.
Everything trump and hitler have done are fully able to be done by someone else. As terrible as they are, theyāre still human.
You could have a decent thought here if it werenāt for his response to BLM movement, trying to call in the national guard to crowd control with live ammo, the border and war crimes, as well his assault on the court system and attack on reproductive/womenās rights. That among many other things no one remembers. The sheer volume of trauma heās generated in the world easily negates any sympathy in my mind.
As a human he deserves medical and psychological treatment like anyone else as thatās a human right imo. One which heās happy to ignore for others. By no means would i ever feel a shred of sympathy for the fleshpile.
Complex PTSD needs to be in the DSMā¦
Thatās not at all how PTSD works. Bad things happen to people all the time and they donāt develop PTSD. Itās insulting to people who really deal with it.
This sounds like you donāt have an understanding of how PTSD works.
PTSD is not āsomething bad happened and now I have feelingsā. It does not automatically happen after a major event. Itās a lot more complicated, and yāall are not psychiatrists. Itās insulting to throw the word around and use it for politics.
Reminds me of people saying āomg 'm so OCD!ā Because they like a clean house. Thatās not what OCD is, and getting shot is not what PTSD is.