Comment preview: Having just responded to man from my old unit's plea for help on Facebook, and having had to call the number below myself, this can't be more true. A lot of people say we get too much, but the only people who mutter these words are those who don't know or ....

Comment preview: > he was never diagnosed with PTSD I don't know where your grandfather was stationed or what he did, obviously, but a large number of combat veterans from WWII/Korea/Nam ended up with PTSD, but the term used at the time was Shell Shock and wasn't treate ....

Comment preview: I hate it when people come right up behind me on stores waiting to check out. I have severe PTSD as a result of many different bad experiences from both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Losing friends and mentors. Conducting body recoveries on both American ....

Comment preview: Buddy...thats fucked up. But don't take your own life. Maybe she travels through technology? Because well, almost anytime something bad happens you're either on your phone, computer, or watching TV... Regardless I know what you're going through. Maybe not ....

Comment preview: I have CPTSD (Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I woke up during spinal surgery when I was twenty. The correct usage of the term means when some sense activates the fight or flight response in a person with PTSD. For example, the strong disinfectant ....

Comment preview: My boyfriend was a marine for four years and encountered some pretty rough stuff. I want to be able to talk to him about his experiences but I'm not sure where the line is for what I can ask. I want to be able to understand where he is coming from but I do ....

Comment preview: Most of the time these "triggers" aren't really triggers, they're just things that bother or inconvenience people who think they're entitled to special treatment. It's one of the things that pisses me off most about this online bullshit activism. Every tim ....

Comment preview: There are a few important things to note here. First of all, combat in antiquity was not anything like combat today. While you were far more likely to fight brutally up close and personal, the lingering dread that veterans of modern wars claim to feel rega ....

Comment preview: This is similar to my old best-friend's story. He was in the Army in Afghanistan (could be Iraq, he did 3 tours in the region). There was a bus that was taking a large group of soldiers to R&R (a week or two of rest and relaxation to refresh). He ....

Comment preview: I work in an emergency room, and I had a vet with PTSD come in all the time having panic attacks. He didn't have health insurance, and dependent on where you live, the VA is overloaded with mental health patients, and you can go months between appointments ....

Comment preview: Aegis are based out of the UK. I met with a few of these guys in Iraq and sadly, they are some of the more well-grounded defense contractors I encountered. I spent a good majority of my first tour cleaning up after Blackwater which is where I witnessed som ....

Comment preview: Sometimes I go to downtown and buy McDonalds Jr. Chicken sandwiches and hand them out to homeless people. It makes me happy doing it and for the most part the homeless people are thankful and enjoy their sandwiches. But one day when I was handing them out ....

Comment preview: There are people that have been through less than what I have been through who are in a horrible mental state, and there are people who have gone through more and are fine. Stress effect people differently. When I came back, our neighborhood had a water pi ....

Comment preview: Yep... I had a friend who was very hardcore pro-military, out of high school I started college he joined the marines. Cut to one and a half years later, he was deployed in Afghanistan for ~ 6 months in an infantry unit, hits an IED, he gets out alright and ....

Comment preview: Our knowledge of PTSD is extremely recent and we still don't understand it fully, and if you look close enough at military policies regarding it, it shows. People have always come back from "the horrors of war" and been completely different than when they ....

Comment preview: because of his PTSD/trauma/family problems he made the easiest target by far. You don't want to say "x number of US soldiers went into 2 different villages and murdered people" because then that destroys everything the US is doing there. No, it's easier to ....

Comment preview: Vet here. Wanted to chime in. While I don't dismiss the fact that PTSD does, in fact, exist, I will say this. A huge majority of people who claim to have PTSD...don't. I got curious about this bullshit fad with a lot of people when an ex-friend of mine who ....

Comment preview: For the people who have friends with PTSD, and did not serve themselves one of the best things you can do for your friend is just be there. One of my closest friend has PTSD and he has told me outright that part of the reason he is still my friend (unlike ....

Comment preview: > I am sure it goes back much further. For as long as humans have experienced warfare, I am sure they would have also experienced emotional trauma. Actually, likely a lot further than you're estimating. For as long as mammals have encountered scary stuf ....

Comment preview: I got to watch a busybody soccer mom get all up in an older dude's face about parking in a handicap spot at the grocery store because he "didn't look handicapped." She was all spitting insults and cursing and telling him how horrible he was for taking the ....

Comment preview: Hey man, I don't know how it is losing my parents, but I know how it is losing friends and family during your time overseas or across conus. I really feel for you brother, as an Army veteran to a soldier. I lost a really good friend to suicide while I was ....

Comment preview: I don't know if being attacked in a war zone counts as being an attempted murder victim, but I was shot at several times, lived through countless mortar attacks, and was in two separate vehicles that were hit by IEDs. We used to patrol by an MSR and the A ....

Comment preview: 1. Real gunfights are a lot more confusing. The sound of a bullet going past you at supersonic speed is much louder than the report of the weapon 300 yards away. This makes it difficult to locate the source of the fire to say nothing of the complex terrain ....

Comment preview: This soldier is dead on, if you join under that type of MOS. I spent 2008 in Baghdad and had quite the different experience. So keep in mind that what your MOS is, and the random lottery of where they send you is the big part of all this. I'm a communicat ....

Comment preview: As an Army EOD tech, you would be stupid to pick EOD. Why? Because you will be deployed at least 6 months out of every year in godforsaken places doing a job in which you have a great chance of being killed. Or at the very least seeing one of your close ....