Post -Traumatic Stress is our natural reaction to a particularly harrowing event or series of events. In other words: it's a response of a sane individual to abnormal circumstances. PTSD will not affect every survivor of a traumatic event, and is not “contagious”. Presenting the disorder as “mental illness” would mean that entire populations of war-stricken countries are mentally ill. My teachers of PTSD were Holocaust survivors, people persecuted by communist regimes, witnesses of massacres in Zambia and Cambodia. All of them were more compassionate and altruistic than an average member of our more and more egocentric society. Most of them have received no psychological or medical help whatsoever, but they got the greatest remedy of all: personal, professional and financial freedom. I do not believe these people would get better if thrown into homelessness and political betrayal after their ordeal…

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