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Originally Posted by MothBalls
Everyone who has seen combat has been "wounded".
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What absolute nonsense! Any child who has ever been punished by their parents has been wounded then. Anyone who has ever been pulled over for a traffic violation has been wounded then.
Your talking out your rear. Not everyone who has seen combat has PTSD or some emotional scar. Yes some things never go away. Some stressful situations change the way we look at things. That doesn't mean its a wound. You know nothing of what you speak.
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Originally Posted by Kongo Otto
I suffer from PTSD.
Everything will be fine again my arse.
The experience i made is that nothing is kept under the carpet and every Armed Service of any country does the best they can do for the men/women which are suffering from PTSD or any other kind of battle trauma.
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K.O. - Brother, your in my prayers. Let me encourage you to see if there is a PTSD support group in your area. There are many here in the States and I strongly suggest PTSD sufferers to give it a try. It helps many.
@Skybird - Its important to understand WHY the occurances of PTSD have increased. Think back to WW2 - submariners didn't sink seamen, they sank ships. Pilots shot down planes, not pilots. Warfighters tend to disassociate as much as possible from the reality that their actions cause the deaths of people. The conflicts that have been ongoing have not allowed such disassociation. You can make a ship or a plane "impersonal" to an extent. You can't look down the barrel of a rifle and site on a person and pull the trigger and then make it impersonal.
This is why the barbarity and inhumanity of the actions of the enemy are stressed by the warfighter. Its psychologically necessary to dehumanize the enemy in some way. Given the problem of seperating the civilian from the combatant, more and more of the symptoms displayed are of the type described by K.O. - the struggle to deal with places where there are lots of people - for example. Its like those who need to sit in a corner at a restaurant just so they can see everyone.
PTSD is real. Many militaries and countries do indeed take it seriously, and try to help those who suffer from it. Could it be done better? Everything like this can be "done better" - but don't think the effort isn't there.