Not that I in any way can do this, but I had wanted to “bestow” the PTSD diagnosis to vets and military people. It’s thought of as a military-thing by most people anyway, right?
(But I keep using it anyway, for people like me. I tried to do the “memory-recall defect” thing, but I just can’t catch on yet. Gimme time.)
In the meantime, seeing my ex-boss’s face on TV and in boldface lettering in print EVERY SINGLE DAY brought me back to ALL those bad-old days, where my leaving Miramax was but the beginning of my demise. (PTSD, as I heard best described, means that the person not only relives the event, they also, therefore, relive the original trauma – over and over and over again!)
If that’s not PTSD, I don’t know what is! So, what to you call that, then?