You are right. See Daryl Hammond’s autobiographical movie which was presented recently by PACESConnection. Another validation of what you said. Peterson and Densley complied a data base of mass shooters (mostly if not all male) 180 in all. They had data on childhood abuse and neglect on 66 shooters and 60 had strong histories.

The book Childhood Disrupted conspicuously included only one man among its six interviewed adult subjects, presumably there being such a small pool of ACE-traumatized men willing to formally tell his own story of childhood abuse. Could it be evidence of a continuing subtle societal take-it-like-a-strong-silent-man mindset? One in which so many men, even with anonymity, would prefer not to ‘complain’ to some stranger/author about his torturous childhood, as that is what ‘real men’ do? I tried contacting the book’s author, Donna Jackson Nakazawa, multiple times via book-related internet websites in regards to this non-addressed florescent elephant in the room, but I received no response.

The lasting emotional/psychological pain from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one’s head. It is solitarily suffered, unlike an openly visible physical disability or condition, which tends to elicit sympathy/empathy from others. It can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is treated with some form of medicating, either prescribed or illicit.

Sadly, due to the common OIIIMOBY mindset (Only If It’s In My Own Back Yard), the prevailing collective attitude, however implicit or subconscious, basically follows: ‘Why should I care — I’m soundly raising my kid?’ or ‘What’s in it for me, the taxpayer, if I support child development programs for the sake of others’ bad parenting?’ While some may justify it as a normal thus moral human evolutionary function, the self-serving OIIIMOBY can debilitate social progress, even when social progress is most needed; and it seems that distinct form of societal penny wisdom but pound foolishness is a very unfortunate human characteristic that’s likely with us to stay.

The wellbeing of ALL children — and not just what other parents’ children might/will cost us as future criminals or costly cases of government care, etcetera — needs to be of real importance to us all, regardless of whether we’re doing a great job with our own developing children. A mentally sound future should be every child’s fundamental right — along with air, water, food and shelter — especially considering the very troubled world into which they never asked to enter. …
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“It has been said that if child abuse and neglect were to disappear today, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual would shrink to the size of a pamphlet in two generations, and the prisons would empty. Or, as Bernie Siegel, MD, puts it, quite simply, after half a century of practicing medicine, ‘I have become convinced that our number-one public health problem is our childhood’.” (Childhood Disrupted, pg.228).

Myself and several colleagues have a peer reviewed paper accepted for publication (and thus currently embargoed) which criticizes the DSM in great detail from an academic and scientific point of view, especially with regard to complex trauma disorder and child abuse, and challenges its whole structure. We will use it as a tool in demanding a DSM total makeover. It is likely that psychiatry will resist these changes and then we will need you all join us in promoting this improvement.

How Common is PTSD in Adults? – National Center for PTSDhttps://www.ptsd.va.gov › understand › common_adults

This is no where near half of the population.

Oh yes! Pierre Janet had some wonderful theories on dissociation and traumatic memory. I should have mentioned his work. Thank you for reading our website! Shirley Davis

I see you corrected the mistake of the percentage, but the line about half of all people developing PTSD in their lifetimes is also incorrect subsequently. Good article overall, thank you for sharing the history of the diagnosis.

Thank you. I messed up. It is supposed to read 4 out of 100 or 4%. I’ll correct my mistake. Thanks for catching this and for reading our blog. Shirley Davis