Re: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

1.  I'm not an HP.

2.  I don't "practice psychiatry" (though oddly enough my grandfather was Martha Bernays Freud's obstetrician).


If, as you say, post-traumatic stress syndrome can occur in anyone who believes himself or herself to be in a frightening situation, recognizing that what scares A may not frighten B and may frighten C enough to cause recurrent stress after the event, what is to be done about it?  Moreover, is there any  objective way to diagnose it?  I get back to my original question: how does one distinguish between fear and the fear that can cause post-traumatic stress?  


My friend who does suffer post traumatic stress has independently observable symptoms.  


Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

ruthweiner@aol.com