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Let's begin with (no pun intended) a reality-check:
Comment #22 qedeileen, re: Psychological Fallacy in Psychiatry Sep 3, 2013:
If you have a traumatic event and have resources to cope, you may not cross any threshold or be overwhelmed, and you may bounce back faster. If you have a traumatic or stressful event, multiple events, continual stressors, a life with no power or control, no choices except bad ones, with no stable housing or income, and so on, you are in a totally different situation. Resilience is not necessarily a biological or genetic trait, but often a result of material and social supports, and connections more available to certain groups or individuals. In general, the Bio-psych-social paradigm I keep reading about seems to neglect actual material resources, as well as overempha- sizing certain bio (NTs, genes) compared to other bio (sleep, relaxation and rest, leisure, good and adequate food, clean water, shelter, reliable transportation, nonviolent home and neighborhood, care and support in childhood, etc.)... editorial emphasis addedand Continue Reading below the orangepeel ▼