The event didn't kill them, the trauma did

The event didn't kill them, the trauma did
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
August 20, 2013

When the hell are they going to get what PTSD is? When will they stop wasting money on studies for rats and now of all things, worms? The headline says that Worms may help uncover secrets to chronic stress in humans

Every thing on the planet is changed by traumatic events. Wildfires are a traumatic event but they don't study the remains of a burnt tree to figure out how a veteran is changed when his skin is burnt off by an IED. Elephants show signs of grief along with other species when one of their own is shot and killed but they don't study them to understand how a soldier is changed by watching one of his friends killed by a sniper's bullet. Why? Because reputable researchers know there a huge difference between humans and animals but jerks can't understand the difference between worms and humans.

People grieve. That is the first obvious clue. People also think, remember and try to sort things out. The emotional price paid comes with the different events (causes) and outcomes.

Great researchers point out the different levels of PTSD as well as the need to treat survivors depending on the nature of the source of the trauma topped off with the times they were involved with threats to their lives.

There is what chemically happens but until they fully understand what emotionally happens to survivors, they will keep seeing more and more kill themselves. I doubt worms commit suicide. We know people do.