now known as post traumatic stress disorder is taking a growing toll on US and australian veterans of the war of iraq which began 14 years ago this week,what are peoples opininion from around the world...IS THERE SUCH A ILLNESS OF PTSD
OR NO IT IS A LOAD OF RUBBISH
2007-03-23 18:24:10 · 8 answers · asked by fatdadslim 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Well, after coming home from Viet Nam, I was diagnosed with PTSD chronic and severe and have had to live with it day and night for 37 years, I tend to believe it is real!
BTW, PTSD is incurable. PTSS is the syndrome and will lessen over time. According to my shrink anyway
2007-03-23 18:58:07 · answer #1 · answered by Kye H 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mostly it is bull. Soldiers came back from many wars for centuries and chose not to talk much about it. Actually they saw it as a source of strength to not be discussed with others as only those who did the same could understand.
But now..... best to say you have PTSD and get some money at some point than just buck it up. Sure some have it. But probably it is because traing is lax, society or too much time playing a video game. Reality is the worst.
2007-03-27 09:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by jackson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, PTSS, which is the "official" name for it here in the USAF, is very real. I am a Phoenix Spouse who, along with about another 30 male/female spouses, look for these stresses once a military member arrives home from abroad; many from combat field operations. My personal involvement with the familie is supposed to be limited once the military member arrives back but you develope a rapport with the family when you are calling them twice a month, stopping by for morale chats and having squadron functions for members of families who have their spouses deployed. It is not a nice picture when you have a returning serviceman, or woman, and then the family have a total stranger living amongst them and not knowing the reasons why they changed in the 7 months to a year they were gone. Just imagine having to stop your job, leave almost immediately, be gone for an unknown amount of time, leave your spouse and family behind not knowing if you will see them ever again and thrown into the chaos of battle and full time alertness for that entire time you are gone. While there you see your buddies get shot up, captured, blown up and killed. Then once you come home family and friends want the same person to come to them that left those many months ago. That experience of what the military person saw and was involved in cannot just be shut off when he arrives home. That is why they have these Phoenix Spouses so that we can be aware of any "changes" from the pattern of the family we got to know before the spouse left and once they returned.
This is an ongoing effort to help those in need once they return. Asking for your thoughts and prayers for these service personnel is a daily request. May God Bless.
2007-03-23 21:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by Serpico 13 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course, its real. In WW1, they called it 'shell shock'. In WW2, it was called 'battle fatigue'. Now its post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). Its very real and it isn't limited to war, either. Victims of violent crimes sometimes suffer from ptsd, as well as, survivors of plane crashes or natural disasters.
2007-03-23 19:52:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people can be affected by a traumatic event more, they may not have the same mental fortitude as another. Without being exposed to those same conditions, you don't know how you would respond.
2007-03-23 18:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by Celebrate Life 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
illness real
2007-03-23 18:28:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't get any more real.
2007-03-23 18:49:31 · answer #7 · answered by TedEx 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When will this stupidity end.
2007-03-23 18:40:33 · answer #8 · answered by zyp_john 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋