Re: Labels

 It is quite understandable to feel hatred and the need for revenge when you have been raped. This is why it may be important to have the criminal justice system involved, in order to prevent a rapist from committing the offence again. This may also help the rapist in the end, because, believe it or not, a rapist can be helped by therapy overcoming the flaw in his personality that causes him to be a rapist.

But revenge is not necessarily going to "cure" the PTSD of the victim. Contrary to popular opinion PTSD is not so much a "psychological illness", but rather a physiological illness with "psychological symptoms". It can often be treated without recourse to medication in many cases. 

PTSD may be considered a disease that is marked by excess production of stress hormones - such as cortisol and adrenaline as a result of an inner biochemical abnormality. These hormones function to increase blood sugar supplies to the brain, very sensitive to glucose levels, on which it depends for chemical reactions to take place.

Thus if a person suffer from Hypoglycemia - a pe-diabtic condition marked by unstable blood sugar levels - a hypoglycemic dip will trigger the release of adrenaline from the adrenal glands in order to feed the brain with glucose for energy. Most people with PTSD prove positive to a special test for hypoglycemia - as distinct from from diabetes - and it is the uncontrolled flooding of adrenaline that is mainly responsible for PTSD, anxiety, insomnia, depression and many other mood disorders.

Of course, there may be other Silent Diseases that may play a role, but these need to be diagnosed by nutritional doctors.  What PTSD sufferers need to do is adopting  the Hypoglycemic diet as a first step in treatment. This may be followed up with a self-help course in Psychotherapy.