PTSD brain change seen on MRI

PTSD is a wound that you can see, if you happen to have a MRI

Does stress damage the brain?
Individuals who experience military combat obviously endure extreme stress, and this exposure leaves a number of diagnosed with the psychiatric condition of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

PTSD is linked to several abnormalities in brain structure and function. However, as researcher Roger Pitman explains, Eventhough it is tempting to conclude that these abnormalities were caused by the traumatic event, it is also possible that they were pre-existing risk factors that increased the risk of developing PTSD upon the traumatic events occurrence. Drs. Kasai and Yamasue along with their colleagues sought to examine this association in a new study reported in the March 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry.
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You know me too well. You saw this rant coming as soon as you read the title of the study.

Deep breath, here we go!

The SOB brass in the military had better come up with different excuses to ignore this now! Test after test, study after study and there are still some denying PTSD is a real wound. It comes from an outside force called TRAUMA! It has nothing to do with their twisted logic that if they had trained better, were not cowards or trying to "suck off the system" then they would be "real men" and do their jobs no matter what happens to them. After all, they "enlisted" didn't they?

The bullshit I keep reading from the commanders still acting as if these wounded soldiers, especially wounded Marines, should be tried as cowards, makes me want to go over to them an slap their faces or use, what my husband said should have been sent to Vietnam, my mouth! He says it's lethal when I'm angry.

If the Brass Bastards would start being ashamed of being such idiots when it comes to PTSD instead of being ashamed of the men and women under their command, this would have changed for all the wounded a long time ago. I guess their training didn't include intelligence!

Then we have the jerks within the units still acting as if the buddy they trusted with their lives is suddenly a different person instead of a wounded warrior! Do these fools ever read anything besides Play Boy? How many lives could have been saved if these Neanderthals remembered they were human as well?

I'm still getting attacked by comic book academics claiming PTSD is fake claim~
After this report, be warned, screw privacy if you email me and sound like a dope. I'll print it for the sake of the wounded you are attacking. I'd rather make you look like an idiot than lose one more wounded warrior over this.

By the way, take it seriously because as a Chaplain, I'm not going to lie.