tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post2011955319281325176..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: Sex differences in traumaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-47473798211003236422016-11-01T18:39:59.767+00:002016-11-01T18:39:59.767+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.McManushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15088476500480931667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-26987880232742341742016-10-28T12:56:24.467+01:002016-10-28T12:56:24.467+01:00I read a piece like this, and thank God for the sh...I read a piece like this, and thank God for the sheltered life I've led. Only twice that I can remember has anyone in my adult life offered me physical violence, and one of those was rational, in that it was an attempted mugging. No PTSD to report.<br /><br />Given the enormous disparity in strength between men and women, I do sympathise with the weaker sex. It's a mark of a civilised society that they should be protected from violence and threats of violence. Another mark of a civilised society is that the rest of us do what we can for the insane and for the mentally defective.<br /><br />Do we do better on those scores than we did fifty years ago? I wonder. Ah well, at least we've stopped jailing buggers. It is, though, a pity that the buggers now want to jail harmless bakers. Mankind, eh?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-43954486658438039342016-10-27T21:10:12.789+01:002016-10-27T21:10:12.789+01:00Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seems t...Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seems to me that women are greatly insulated from trauma and emotional pain in general by being married, particularly still being married to their first husband, even more if they are mothers. The most at-risk women are single, have had several partners, are still in their fertile years, and have no children. Such a state seems to amount to long-term abuse in its effects on women.<br /><br />There are other common aspects of the psychology of such vulnerable women that aren't mentionable in institutional settings, but Heartiste and others have done a great deal of ah, hands-on research on the matter. More than any clinician would admit to on the record, anyway. What is most traumatic to women is generally not the same as for men. A really vicious snub from someone high in her social circle often hurts a woman more than a beating from a stranger.EHnoreply@blogger.com