Author claims Post-traumatic stress disorder claims are just an excuse

It would be a great joy for this man to face some of the Vietnam Veterans and tell them this bit of news. Think of how much better they would feel to know they were faking all along so many years after they were in fact out of the military! I am sure this is really making sense to this person but to the rest of the world, he would be equal to the cavemen thinking fire was a bad thing. People like this are part of the reason we are not as far ahead on PTSD help than we are. They love to stand in the way of the help they need without ever once thinking of how many of the PTSD veterans would love to stay in the military and be healed instead of being jerked around like this and once again being blamed for what combat did to them. What's this person's excuse for the survivors of other kinds of trauma with PTSD? The people in New York after 9-11 would be trying to get out of what? PTSD goes back to the start of recorded history. What were they trying to "get out of?"

Post-traumatic stress disorder claims are just an excuse to quit the army, says best-selling SAS author Andy McNab
Former SAS soldier Andy McNab tells a Howard League for Penal Reform inquiry that lack of education is the real reason for the large number of ex-servicemen in prison
Jamie Doward The Observer, Sunday 13 June 2010

One of Britain's best-known soldiers has dismissed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among the armed forces as little more than an excuse for recruits to leave the service early.

Andy McNab, the former SAS soldier now turned best-selling author, said servicemen and women "were very resilient" and that the perception that significant numbers of them suffered PTSD was wrong.

McNab, who spent the best part of two decades in the army, said there was a trend for armed forces personnel wanting to leave before the end of their contract to claim they had PTSD in order to obtain a medical discharge and a pension.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder claims are just an excuse