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It's not that it sucks to have this brought up, it's that the people who do are pretty consistently dismissive and infantilising about it. Naturally, folks that this happens to develop an aversion to people that say the same thing for the millionth time. It's not novel, it's not interesting (in that it never leads anywhere novel either) and it's frequently hostile.

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The bigger problem is that nothing seems to be "interesting", in the sense that nothing leads anywhere with this disorder - no test, and no treatment.

If anything I feel like it’s actually more interesting if it’s a psychiatric condition.

Does someone’s visceral sense of having control of their own life being detonated have an impact on their body? Probably? What if they have been conditioned to act like they are not bothered by this aspect of the situation, and therefore don’t process this feeling and it remains unresolved. That is like the definition of trauma.

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