Some soldiers confront reality where PTSD is part of their identity

Some soldiers confront reality where PTSD is part of their identity
The Takeaway
Published 07 August, 2013

Post-dramatic stress disorder haunts some American soldiers returning home from wars in the Middle East.

For those affected, the traumatic experience of war is almost impossible to shake. More than 1 in 5 of the more than 2 million combat veterans from those wars experience some symptoms related to PTSD — and its a complicated phenomenon.

The symptoms are often difficult to detect, as they lie invisibly inside a soldier's psyche. It seems that for every image of a soldier returning to the arms of his family is the story of another unable to cope with trauma.

The disorder has also found its way into popular culture, especially on the big screen. The Jason Bourne movies focused on a soldier who's deliberately given symptoms of PTSD to make him more aggressive and dangerous.

But PTSD is not about movie plots and mind control — it is about identity.
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