On 07/11/16 14:50, Lodewijk wrote:
The question would also be:
- is this a significant problem
Yes, I still think this is an issue, since it shows a lack of clarity
and correctness in the use of a term in the English language. Below is
another example of where a term in the field of mental illness is not
well understood, in this case by Piers Morgan.
Guardian, Thursday 15 December 2016 12.53 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/15/piers-morgan-ptsd-lad…
https://v.gd/9zNPFF
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Lady Gaga has told how she was raped at the age of 19 by a man 20 years
her senior. “I suffer from PTSD,” she said in a Today show interview on
the US network NBC. “I’ve never told anyone that before.” On Saturday,
on Twitter, Piers Morgan tweeted a CNN piece headlined “Lady Gaga: ‘I
have PTSD’” with his response: “No, soldiers returning from battlefields
do. Enough of this vain-glorious nonsense.” He followed this with
another tweet to his 5.3 million followers – “I come from a big military
family. It angers me when celebrities start claiming ‘PTSD’ about
everything to promote themselves”....
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Gordo