Delta4Embassy
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I mean no disrespect to the OP, but it is seriously unlikely that you have PTSD from watching tv. My girlfriend has it (she was gang raped) and I have two friends who were in the Marines who have it. Both experienced extreme combat. Sitting on one's couch and watching tv (however upsetting it might be) would not produce enough adrenaline to wire the brain for hypersensitivity and hyper vigilance.
"There is accumulating evidence that repeated viewing of traumatic events on television cause symptoms of PTSD even if you were never traumatized before. Studies show that watching four hours of television images per day of soldiers at war or of other terrorist attacks results in psychological and physical damage, such as high blood pressure and heart attacks. The same is true of watching images of hurricane Katrina, or the tsunami in Japan or gruesome pictures of the death of Osama bin Laden, all create a collective or community wide trauma all across the nation."
News Coverage of 9 11 and PTSD - Terrorism Domestic And International
"Just watching television footage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was enough to cause clinically diagnosable stress responses in some people who did not even live near the attacks—let alone the millions of people who did.
Like many other major disasters, 9/11 brought with it a host of psychological repercussions, one of the most severe of which has been post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is characterized by trouble sleeping, difficulty controlling anger, losing interest in activities, flashbacks, emotional numbness and/or other symptoms. If not treated, it can be debilitating."
The Changing Mental Health Aftermath of 9 11--Psychological First Aid Gains Favor over Debriefings - Scientific American
Thanks to all the stupid people chiming in, wouldn't have bothered offering the links otherwise.