The American’s asymmetrical warfare and the resulting paranoia itself can give you PTSD.
If you spend years always expecting a drone bombing your wedding, always being told to expect a drone bombing your wedding, you will see a drone bombing your wedding everywhere.
Even if your wedding never were actually drone bombed.
Not that i’m defending him but asymmetrical warfare can and will fuck you up.
hibsen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The Taliban’s methods of warfare, in and of themselves, don’t even meet criterion A for a PTSD diagnosis. The man wouldn’t necessarily have to be in combat to meet that, but it’s a lot more likely if he did (which, by all evidence I’ve seen, he didn’t).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which diagnostic standard are you using? None of the ones I have use letters.
hibsen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The DSM-5.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I tend to diagnose with better tests than a physician’s desk reference, but you do you.