E03: Critical Reading – smokesdabear

“Her nose starts running she’s so pissed, and there she is standing in a CVS, snotty and deaf with rage”

Does having a runny nose always signify rage? Her being ill may be causing her rage, as it is common for people to become easily irritated. If this is not the cause of the rage then it may be because of other problems in her life, such as relationships.

“In one study, the incidence of secondary trauma in wives of Croatian war vets with PTSD was 30 percent. In another study there, it was 39 percent.”

This of course depends on the amount of people that were involved in the tests, as well as who conducted these tests. If there such a gap between the two tests the information should not be credible.

“But whatever people have called it, they haven’t been likely to grasp or respect it.”

People do understand and respect the severeness of it though. Just because it is not in the spotlight of societies mind does not mean the world is completely disregarding PTSD. Making the claim that society does not respect this disorder is bombastic.

“But there’s still a lot about brain damage that doctors, much less civilians, don’t understand.”

She calls out the fact that civilians with out a doubt understand less about the subject than doctors. But this basically discredits any other claims she has made about PTSD, because the author is essentially belittling her own social group. And yet again she is making the assumption that people are completely in the dark about brain damage.