Yeah, I’m just...I have #cPTSD because of years of childhood abuse, sex trafficking, trapped in an abusive marriage where I was tortured and utterly controlled, and almost killed.

So saying that someone would make a video mocking patients because of the diagnosis I have, as a result of occupational stress...no.

I have a real problem with that.

The power dynamic is very different for people who have been diagnosed with #cPTSD as opposed to #PTSD or #burnout.

https://twitter.com/browofjustice/status/1198672260111970304?s=21 https://twitter.com/browofjustice/status/1198672260111970304

Captivity changes you. Living in captivity changes you.

And maybe there needs to be a designation beyond cPTSD for those of us who have lived in captivity, if you’re really going to say there’s an epidemic of cPTSD in medical professionals.

I’m a nurse. I don’t know how many times I have to say it. I’m a nurse, and I’m a patient, and co-opting a diagnosis like this then using it as a rationale for mockery on the part of other clinicians is reprehensible.

The power dynamic is not even close.

And maybe I don’t need to be dealing with this publicly right now, because I’m having a lot of feelings, and I’m having trouble telling if they are reasonable or not, where they are coming from, and their utility.

But I don’t think I’m being unreasonable to suggest that there is a spectrum of trauma, and not all of it is the same, and if you really think that anyone working in healthcare experiences the same level of trauma as someone who has cPTSD, you need to start over.

TL;DR: Burnout in healthcare is often a result of trauma. The trauma is inflicted by HC systems, not patients, but even if it was taking it out on patients is inexcusable. It is not cPTSD and saying it is minimizes what that term means.