PTSD

((Originally Posted May 2))

So where was I on this..

Oh yes, the screaming...

I can't believe that I am the only one who feels like they skin is starting to crawl after the 5th or 6th hour of listening to DS scream and cry (we just went through another bout of illnesses, this time croup and stomach flu). As sorry as I feel for the little guy, it is incredibly hard to take listening hour after hour after hour of his screaming.. is this not traumatic on a child's poor mother to see her otherwise happy, easy going kid suffering so much that he refuses to leave her side, and spends the day crying?

Of course, if funding to women's related heath issues ever reached even 1/10th of that of men, a correlation between post-partum depression and post traumatic stress disorder might actually be found. Then again, since in many corners of the medical community women are still considered the natural, caring, and comforting gender, and thus should be just able to "take" listening to their baby's crying (you know, like they used to think a man, by virtue of all that testosterone, should just be able to "take" listening to gunfire and bomb shells), it is doubtful that until many more women join the sciences and medical communities will more serious research into this area be done.

BTW, isn't wonderful (drip) to hear that enrollment by women in the sciences field is dropping at a staggering rate? But that is a whole other rant..