Life with PTSD it affects the entire family

Life with PTSD it affects the entire family
by testvet6778
Fri Oct 19, 2007 at 01:13:45 AM PDT
In a "rescued diary, Broken Skull, aka Brian McGough explains his life and how he has dealt with his PTSD and how it has affected him, his parents, his relationship with his daugther, and his relationship with his new wife who he met in the Army, who also happens to have PTSD but refuses to seek help with it.

It's a choice she has to make, it's not anything anyone can force her to do, no more than they could force me or any other veteran. Max Cleland was disabled during the Vietnam war when he lost three limbs from a grenade, he did not seek help for PTSD until August 26, 2006 more than 40 years after he was injured. For that matter there are now WW2 seeking treatment after living with PTSD symptoms since 1945 or before. It can affect anyone.


It is hard for anyone to "admit" to themselves they are having "mental health issues" for one thing in the military culture it is seen as a sign of weakness, you are taught to "suck it up", "drive on" or the favorite "just deal with it, on your own time".

I know I was one of the squad leaders/Platoon Sergeants that told it to hundreds of soldiers over my career. I did them no favors, nor myself. I had a long line of military family members to live up to, my stepfather flew in the 8th Army Air Corp they bombed Germany in WW2, my own father was older and he was in D Troop of the 7th Calvary in the period 1914-1916, he and my Uncle Gideon served together at Douglas, Arizona, just before their enlistment was up they went on the march into Mexico with General "Blackjack" Pershing after Panco Villa.
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/19/25238/916

Max Cleland had been treated for depression. It was not until the occupation of Iraq that he knew it was much deeper than that.