Disruption and Disconnection Amplify Post Traumatic Stress
(First let's truncate the now overused acronym so common it's starting to sound dull, from "PTSD" to "PTS" meaning "post traumatic stress." PTS without the trailing 'D' is not a permanent-sounding disorder. PTS is temporary, curable, something we can recover from through post-traumatic growth.) Two shooters in the last month were not only alerted to authorities by others - they'd called authorities on themselves months before firing on and killing innocent targets. Four stories worth looking at as a group: 1. The 19-year-old Florida shooter from February had no parents and one younger sibling at the time he committed his crimes. No excuse for what he did, but. He called authorities just after Thanksgiving, saying his mother had just died and he was struggling to control his temper. 2. The 36-year-old shooter at Yountville's Pathway House, a Northern California mental health treatment facility, had lost his only parent the ...