Three months to be diagnosed with PTSD, according to the DSM-IV, but, from what I've seen in real life, ASR shades into PTSD without any particular dividing line. (Then the PTSD can also be acute or chronic, but the dividing line is again arbitrary.) However, what signs of PTSD are you thinking of subsequent to the Siege of the North? I thought we were talking about Aang's nightmare and reaction to the genocide early in the first book. I saw those scenes and thought, "PTSD! Wait, no, that happened yesterday for Aang; of course he's still freaked out and hasn't dealt with it yet."
Ten-year-olds can be monsters. I was never in that dynamic, though, so I didn't recognize it in Azula and her friends. As far as Mai and Ty Lee being at fault for everything, 1. I don't think they could have caused psychosis. 2. I used to blame myself for not having made my "friend" a nicer person. I couldn't have done anything. 3. Even if they could have, why should they have been obliged to take care of Azula while she wrought havoc upon the world?
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Date: 2013-03-02 03:36 am (UTC)Ten-year-olds can be monsters. I was never in that dynamic, though, so I didn't recognize it in Azula and her friends. As far as Mai and Ty Lee being at fault for everything,
1. I don't think they could have caused psychosis.
2. I used to blame myself for not having made my "friend" a nicer person. I couldn't have done anything.
3. Even if they could have, why should they have been obliged to take care of Azula while she wrought havoc upon the world?