"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by --------."
Sigmund Freud
He may or may not have actually said this, but some people are just --------.
The DSM is now including so many of what use to be called the worried well. Look at how the number of people being diagnosed with ADHD and Autism Spectrum disorder (neither associated with violence).
An old rule from the APA after the Goldwater debacle was that we are not to pontificate about individuals without evaluating them. Many of my colleagues are tossing that to the side to weigh in on social issues and politicians.
I had my own PTSD and then started working at the VA. Should have written it up for vicarious PTSD. I have been on the Bataan Death March and various jungle excursions in Vietnam. 30 years later and my own deployment most of it is quiet now. I can go to a range if only myself and one other. Live under the flight line from St. Cloud to Camp Ripley so that can occasionally stir things up but much better than years ago. My personal trauma is related to Huey's so the UH 1's and Chinooks don't really bother me that much.
I don't go to the VA for groups anymore, just a pissing contest trying to one up each other as to who had the worst trauma, not very therapeutic imo.