Retired from sad, new career in m/h research (@brispophealth @withoutstigma.) Researching violence, trauma & bodies. Usually gay, often depressed. S/her
Mar 8, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Given its #IWD & I'm a mental health researcher working on Complex PTSD as well as (like many women) having my own experiences with it, I felt it was important to weigh in and talk about how the understanding of trauma and PTSD Bindel expresses has a long and sexist history 🧵 1/
Most initial research done on PTSD was on military (read male) populations, and tended to look at exposures to trauma happening over a brief time period (often even a one off event) happening somewhere far removed from the person's 'normal' life. 2/
