On what basis do you feel so comfortable making this statement? Where is your data? Please provide a citation to back up this assertion. This flies in the face of accepted knowledge. Car accidents can cause PTSD. An event can be traumatic if it is unexpected, unanticipated, and uncontrollable. Nothing about your scenario alters that basic formula (unless you are going to claim you said “and there’s no mental scarring”, but in that case you’re using circular reasoning, e.g. “if there is no mental scarring, we can prove there’s no mental scarring”)
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/emotional_psychological_trauma.htm
http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32366
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/DS00246
http://www.aafp.org/afp/990800ap/524.html
Here’s my data. I think you’re wrong, and I found all this with ten minutes of Google searching. I’m sure if I spent hours looking, I could find your exact scenario addressed. But I don’t have to do that, because you’re the one who made the statement so it’s your job to provide the reasoning behind it.
I have noticed nothing of the sort. I have noticed you claiming, without evidence, to know what you are talking about. Anyone can do that, and in fact nut jobs claim to be experts all the time. You know who Jack Thompson is, right?
Put up or shut up.
[Edit: proper use of nested quotes. Also clarified]
[ 10-04-2006, 07:31 PM: Message edited by: Nandemonai ]