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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Sure, but PTSD is a specific disorder that individuals are diagnosed with. If a group of people are unable to work towards a single goal, saying they have "collective ADHD" is imprecise and potentially offensive to people with the diagnosis.

That said, I knew what you meant 🀷

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

It seems to be the accepted term in the scholarly and clinical community.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

"Collective trauma" or "collective PTSD"? The latter is what we were discussing earlier in this thread. It has zero occurrences on Google Ngrams: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Collective+PTSD%2C+collective+trauma&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

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