PTSD is a 'cultural phenomena' not even close

Maybe they should have sought a war historian before writing the book then they would know that PTSD has been doing the same thing to all generations of veterans. Then again if they sought a theologian, they would have known it goes back to Old Testament as well.

PTSD is a 'cultural phenomena' in U.S., authors say
The Gazette
By Erin Prater
Published: January 19, 2014

A newly released book written by two Colorado professors argues that more U.S. combat veterans are diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in the U.S. than anywhere else because the condition has become a "cultural phenomena."

Sarah Hautzinger, a Colorado College associate professor of anthropology, and Jean Scandlyn, a University of Colorado at Denver research associate professor of health and behavioral sciences and anthropology, teamed up to write "Beyond Post-Traumatic Stress: Homefront Struggles with the Wars on Terror," released in December by Left Coast Press.

The book is the product of a half-decade of ethnographic research that entailed interviewing local troops and veterans.

The idea for a project - but not necessarily a book - was hatched when a Fort Carson civilian worker contacted Hautzinger several years ago. The woman told of military wives who were obtaining prescriptions and giving them to their husbands, who suffered from PTSD but didn't want to damage their careers by seeking help, Hautzinger said.
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Wow! "Cultural" really? Then how do they explain survivors of all other types of trauma and their suffering with PTSD? If it is cultural then why wouldn't it produce more acceptability and less stigma? Wives getting medications for their husbands to take? That says something right there.

"In the US" is also another issue considering that every nation has problems with PTSD.

The other factor is the military has been spending billions of ending the stigma, according to their claims of where the money has been going, at the same time the stigma lives on while thousands of military/veteran folks answer their "why me" question with ending their own lives.