First I would like to say that I agree with most of the points made by Vanessa. Talking about her first one, the origin of the international psychosocial model, she mentions the various types of psychosocial interventions, from the less significant to some more important. It is made

In her paper Vanessa also talks about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, she does a great job in talking about its value and its overuse in today's international society. I would talk a little bit more about what it is. PTSD was discovered by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. It was "discovered" after the various traumas from the Vietnam War. It develops mostly after experiences like, combat fatigue, war trauma, rape child abuse. The diagnosis are anxiety, depression, flashbacks of the trauma, hypervigilance, avoidance of things that may trigger to remember the trauma. I strongly agree with Vanessa that this disorder has and is being abused for political and personal reasons. PTSD was discovered also to shift the attention of the disturbed mental health and psyche of the veteran to the nature of the traumatic war. This was used to help the veterans of the Vietnam war to scroll away from them the accusations of being babykillers and psychopaths. PTSD made the veterans victims of the roles imposed to them by the US military. It also gave veterans " moral exculpation" and guaranteed them a disability pension. Now PTSD's meaning has been enlarged to many other kind of less serious traumas and can be used by the whole population. It has been associated with other kind of less traumatize events such as: mugging, car accidents, poverty living childhood, shocking news. Even the jobs, like being a policeman or medics in life Vs death situations, are making people becoming PTSD's "clients". This is because it is convenient for them, because everybody prefers to be victim of the society' bad happenings, rather than fight against it and coming out of it. This is what is going on in the Western society. To me, it seems very absurd that a society that has citizens preferring to be victims can help and understand the reality in an, for example, African community. Therapeutic intervention by Western programmes, as Vanessa points out, make many mistakes. One of them is to make assumptions about what is wrong on a whole post-war community and not thinking that different situations make different people react in different ways. Vanessa gives an example about this by explaining the response of the international psycho-social response in Kosovo, which was to assume that mass trauma was present. Also she talks about the treatment of this post-war community, which is very different from the US veterans. Another interesting thing that she mentions is the how the international psychosocial model views the individual. As I have mentioned before victimism, is playing a major role in W

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