The downside to kooks diluting real conditions like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) is that, over time, the public will regard the quackery as the real thing.   PTSD has now gone from being a rare condition suffered by soldiers in battle to being a blanket diagnosis for anyone who feels traumatized by anything.    

Now, we are supposed to believe a person who hears about stories of people who suffer PTSD will somehow catch it.    

Mac McClelland, a civil rights 'reporter' obsessed with sexual violence, was working for Mother Jones when she accompanied a Haitian victim of sexual violence to a hospital and the woman saw her attackers and went into shock.

McClelland then became part of the story and claims she went into shock also.   She claims to have developed symptoms of post-traumatic stress like avoidance of feelings, flashbacks and recurrent thoughts that triggered crying spells.

Her solution was to cure her PTSD by arranging to be raped.  Now, this is not a new thing, and a writer obsessed with rape is not going to be in the mainstream of what psychologists consider normal, but pretending it is something other than a rape fantasy as a way to legitimize it (and make a few bucks, since she then gets paid to write about it) is being intellectually dishonest.

It's also completely disrespectful to the many legitimate victims of sexual violence.    

Dare psychologists at least consider she went into the area of writing she went into because of her obsession?  

Elana Newman, research director for the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and a professor of psychology at the University of Tulsa
said McClelland was "brave" as a journalist to address her struggle so openly, but she does not recommend that those with post-traumatic stress "put themselves at risk without controls."
which is another way of saying what most people suspect, but it would be better for psychology overall if people would call this sort of stuff out, instead of rationalizing and defending it.