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Seerut needs to stick to anti-woke rhetoric, because that’s what she’s good at.
everyone has trauma, there are no exceptions. some people have more severe trauma than others but one thing i cannot stand about seerut is her dangerous assertion that PTSD only shows up in combat vets, refugees, and victims of physical violence.
she is WOEFULLY ignorant for someone who practices psychology, and should be deeply ashamed of herself for practicing something she is not qualified to practice.
her narrative does a massive disservice to everyone who suffers from CPTSD, PTSD, and every other trauma-caused mood & personality disorder on the planet - which is a great many people (including narcissists).
ALL trauma - including war trauma - is at it’s root emotional trauma. when someone makes the assertion that PTSD and trauma only show up in combat vets, they negate childhood neglect, abuse, mental abuse, victims of bullying, rape victims. this is unacceptable in someone who is a practicing psychologist and in no way should people feel safe purchasing her services.
she literally MOCKS people who’s pain she doesn’t like, understand, or relate to. that kind of behavior from a professional in the mental health industry is so beyond wrong, it borders on mental and emotional abuse and I feel sorry for her clients.
That’s complete and utter bullshit.
everyone has trauma, there are no exceptions
This is a faith-based statement, not one based in reality. I do not have trauma. I am an exception. And if I am an exception, others are exceptions and your assertion falls over instantly. You might want to insist that I have “repressed” trauma, but that would be leaning even more heavily into your faith. Like insisting to an atheist that they really do believe in god, they just deny it.
I have regrets and I have unpleasant memories, but I don’t have “trauma,” and the only way your claim holds up is if, like any woke project, you have to redefine “trauma” to extend it where it doesn’t belong, in order to make your ideology work.
one thing i cannot stand about seerut is her dangerous assertion that PTSD only shows up in combat vets, refugees, and victims of physical violence.
Your distaste doesn’t make it true. And labelling it as “dangerous” doesn’t make it dangerous, especially when you don’t justify why accurate diagnosis, accurate categorization is “dangerous.” Indeed, it demonstrates the problem exactly. Emotional dysregulation is not trauma. It’s emotional dysregulation. Trauma is a specific, defined, measurable phenomenon.
And this is not just Seerut. This is accepted by the mental health profession:
“Dr. Paul Conti was on my podcast, he’s an amazing trauma psychiatrist, he said trauma is an experience, it’s not just a bad experience. Trauma is an experience that changes your nervous system such that it behaves differently in the future, in a way that’s maladaptive for you.”
-- Dr. Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D
This phenomenon of “everyone has trauma” is not a medical assertion. Trauma-specializing psychiatrists are saying you’re wrong, and reject the “everyone” thing. This is coming from identity activists attempting to make themselves special.
she is WOEFULLY ignorant for someone who practices psychology,
I have already cited three credentialed therapists who indicate that you are incorrect: Chawla, Huberman and Conti.
Here’s another source:
Trauma occurs when the nervous system becomes so overwhelmed that the brain is unable to process what is happening. Because the brain is unable to process what is occurring, the information cannot be properly integrated, resulting in the inability to restore equilibrium. As threat, shock, and fear are perceived and experienced, energy and arousal levels sky rocket to an overwhelming and unmanageable level, and this energy gets locked and stuck in the body’s nervous system. When this energy and arousal is not released, it causes a number of physical and emotional symptoms. Trauma and traumatic stress can alter brain structure, causing lasting changes in the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and the amygdala as these three areas are highly involved in the physiological response to stress. During a traumatic experience, the neurotransmitter, norepinephrine, highly associated with the body’s stress response, becomes increased to an abnormal level, and the amount of the hormone, Cortisol, that controls the level of norepinephrine, becomes decreased. In individuals who have experienced trauma or are suffering from PTSD, norepinephrine levels become elevated in stressful situations following the initial traumatic experience, and these abnormal levels play a large role in PTSD symptoms.
Trauma is a specific, defined, measurable, physiological thing.
A formal (and recall, rare) diagnosis of PTSD or CPTSD requires a lengthy process of evaluation and clinical interviews — typically with a psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, or other highly trained clinician. As a rule of thumb, one should refrain from adopting a PTSD explanatory model until one has received a formal diagnosis. More to the point, the alarming inflation (or concept creep) of the meaning of trauma in our culture deserves careful investigation. We also ought to exercise immense caution with our suggestibility to novel forms of influence that complicate simple pictures of iatrogenesis.
To this end, I offer the terms para-iatrogenic, or pseudo-iatrogenic to draw the reader’s attention to a booming alternative health cultural-industrial complex comprised of non-medical, pseudo-clinical practitioners without formal training in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Think, to name but a few, of Instagram influencers, coaches, mindfulness gurus, naturopaths, astrologers, the (unregulated) nutraceutical industry, mind-body-spirit healers, and all the neo-shamans who routinely employ folk beliefs about “mental health” to offer “trauma-informed care.”
We may now coin another term to point to a very significant vector for the spread of maladaptive explanatory models:
Istogenesis, istogenic (from the Greek istós, web): that which originates on the Internet.
Let’s note that CPTSD is not actually recognized by the American Psychiatric Association or the DSM-5 as a valid disorder.
Everything you’re saying is as unscientific as faith healing.
her narrative does a massive disservice to everyone who suffers from CPTSD, PTSD, and every other trauma-caused mood & personality disorder on the planet - which is a great many people (including narcissists).
The narrative is entirely yours. What she’s saying does a disservice only to people roleplaying for social credit, validation and identity, and the power afforded them by that. Not to mention justifying shitty behavior which is instead due to personality flaws. If you can blame your narcissism, manipulation or sociopathic leanings on “trauma,” suddenly it’s not your fault and you’re the victim instead of someone who needs to honestly address your behavior and mentality.
You basically confessed to this yourself when you started insisting, essentially, that your trauma was just as real as real trauma. Otherwise, you should have nothing to say about this. Cause yours is the real kind, right?
Seerut doesn’t deny the existence of real trauma, she’s just opposing the classic woke tactic of redefining it for political and ideological purposes. The existence of this post is accidentally a confession.
Seerut has basically said “I reject fake trauma” - that is, other issues ideologically attributed to “trauma” when they’re not - and you volunteered yourself up, going “hold up, that’s not fair.” LOL. You see the problem, right?
But then, wasn’t this you?
everyone has trauma, there are no exceptions
Which is it? You can’t have it both ways. How can even your own, ideologically-motivated categorization only be “great many people” when you insist that “everyone has trauma, there are no exceptions”? What does “maladaptive” even mean when “everyone has trauma”? And when will you notice that your ideology refutes itself?
when someone makes the assertion that PTSD and trauma only show up in combat vets, they negate childhood neglect, abuse, mental abuse, victims of bullying, rape victims.
Let’s go back and re-read what she actually wrote.
If you have never been through anything traumatic but demand you are seen as JUST AS TRAUMATISED as combat veterans, refugees & actual victims of violence. Consider another label: narcissism.
Emphasis mine. What you said is explicitly false. People can read. I know I can. So did you not read it properly, or are you lying to gaslight us (suggestive of narcissism, as proposed)? Her words are right there, you know.
she literally MOCKS people who’s pain she doesn’t like, understand, or relate to.
No, she doesn’t, and this demonstrates the narcissism she’s talking about. You want validation so much through your claims to “trauma” that to deny it and suggest that there is a different diagnosis that is more applicable and more accurate is personally invalidating and affronting to you, to the point of pretending it’s “MOCK”ing.
A therapist who challenges your assumptions about yourself is not MOCKing you - they’re being a therapist. That’s what they do. That’s the job description. Someone who constantly affirms everything about you is not a therapist - it’s more like a prostitute.
‘Trauma’ is PTSD, not emotional dysregulation. As someone with a PTSD diagnosis, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
And there are actually people who actually get angry they can’t say they’re ‘traumatised’. #toxicvulnerability
It’s so fascinating to watch you pretend that correct classification and diagnosis is some sort of intolerance or dislike or hate. It’s like you care more about retaining the social credit afforded by the label of “trauma” than about actually addressing your issues, no matter what they’re diagnosed as. Most people would love to be told “you don’t have cancer, you have a benign tumor.” Most people would love to be told “you don’t have trauma, you have X.” Especially people who have trauma; they would love to be someone who doesn’t have trauma.
You’ve invested your identity in this roleplay game wrapped up in your “trauma” identity.
People who have benign tumors rather than cancer need them addressed. Nowhere has she said that your problems are not real or don’t need to be addressed; that’s an absolute strawman and a dishonest attempt at character assassination. She’s just not playing along with your self-diagnosis and your determination to steal airtime from people with actual trauma just because you want to be included as an identity category.
Your reaction completely affirms everything she said. Maybe look into Histrionic Personality Disorder too, though.
Seerut is a therapist and cares about her patients, and part of that is helping them with what’s going on with them accurately. Because treating actual trauma requires a different approach and toolset than other personal issues. Which makes this...
that kind of behavior from a professional in the mental health industry is so beyond wrong, it borders on mental and emotional abuse
... not only jaw-droppingly hyperbolic but sickeningly fundamentalist. All you’re saying is that she doesn’t conform her practice to your ignorant, unscientific ideological demands, she won’t pander to you sculpting your identity around bullshit Instagram mantras. Good. That’s a good therapist. Remember: you have trauma. Your judgement is unreliable. That’s your position, right? You don’t get to claim you have trauma and then insist your perceptions are razor-sharp. Again, your ideology refutes itself.
Everyone else does not have trauma. And you stealing people’s terminology for their debilitating condition as a form of stolen valor is more gross than her telling you the truth you simply don’t want to hear. Religious believers act the exact same way when they’re told the truth about their imaginary gods, their miracles and signs. They get offended and insist that this is sufficient reason to reject the truth. That’s what you’re doing.
“If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.'“
-- Christopher Hitchens
Because you haven’t. Literally nothing in your rant offers a factual rebuttal, a reference, a citation. You just unloaded your offended feelings that your faith had been violated by a blasphemer.
Stop building your identity around your problems, stop taking psychological guidance from shills on Instagram, and, seriously, get help. Actual help.
Because right now you sound like you’re in a cult.