>>615012>>614974From what I remember reading
the researchers conferred the theory that a person’s behaviour in life is more determined by the sum of things that have affected their life than when something has affected their life.
In application, this theory means that a bullying victim will turn out to be a healthy adult if that victim lives a healthy lifestyle until adulthood. It also explains why people coming from war zones and poverty tend to find financial success through immigration and education. It explains why studies found on 911 and mass shooting victims find shockingly low rates of PTSD among survivors.
It also clarifies why PTSD or “shell shock” is lower among Korean War and world war era fighters than with veterans who fought in the middle eastern campaigns. Actually, a guy that wrote the “on killing” and “on combat” found that much of the PTSD among Iraq and Vietnam war veterans was caused less by direct combat and more by prolonged exposure to starvation and the environment the marines were in. This finding ties well into the theory I mentioned earlier
I could keep going on with examples of how resilient most people are towards genuine issues with mental illness, but I’ll stop there. You get the idea. A single bad event in life will not determine whether someone will turn out poorly in adulthood. A series of bad events definitely will.