So, while some people who experience a PTE will be traumatised and go on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, others may have almost no emotional response, and yet others may even feel somehow gifted and enhanced by surviving an experience. However, by setting up the expectation that everyone who experienced a particular event probably has – or should have – a severe adverse response, critical incident stress debriefing has the potential to adversely homogenise people’s reactions, pushing their memories and responses to be more negative than they naturally would have been.
