So quick to criticize and does not know what the heck he's talking about.

I work in mental health. I treat many patients with PTSD - that have experienced a variety of traumatic events- from childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, women that were victims of domestic violence, people that were victims of violent robberies, and on and on. The DSM V - Sets the the standards to make diagnosis. Thankfully not the damn Republicans.

It can be triggered by nothing more than seeing a decorative shelf too high to dust without going out and getting a ladder.

Whatever feelings and suspicions some of Omar's other behaviors have caused, I'd want more than this before I even started suspecting it was anything but a way of expressing rejection of war.

Carlin did a skit on PTSD as a larger focus on how language changes and is sometimes weakened.

He talked about how in WWI it was "shell shock" a jarring phrase that labelled a serious situation. In WWII it became "combat fatigue" more syllables, not as jarring. In Vietnam is became Post Traumatic Stress Disorder... went the skit, implying that it was jargon that didn't mean anything anymore. While Carlin was usually insightful, he was not correct on this one for exactly the reasons you expressed.

PTSD is an inclusive label that shows that anyone can suffer from trauma, not only combat veterans. We know that Rep Omar experienced the civil war in Somalia. We don't know exactly what she witnessed. Did she lose family members? Did she see people being hurt or killed? Was she threatened? We also know she spent 4 years in a refugee camp. We have seen pictures and heard about the conditions in refugee camps. I cannot imagine that it was a pleasant and enjoyable experience.

It all comes down to Republican binary thinking and their mentality to score political points at all costs. Someone who has been in a car accident can develop PTSD as easily as a combat veteran. Is one more worthy of understanding and adequate treatment than the other?

There's no bottom to how disgusting and how desperate Republicans are when they attack her.

All suffer fro PTSD. The symptoms are hyper vigilance and constant fear and apprehension and behavior altering activity to cope with the anxiety of violence that is triggered by nothing the victim does or says. The violence always comes from and is caused by the abuser. Always.