PTSD Opinion pass off as fact, again

I was just reading on The Blaze a story by Virginia Kruta "The Real VA Scandal The The Key Services They Don’t Even Pretend to Provide claiming the VA does not address anger in PTSD patients. WOW! Just because she says so then it must be true? Right? No. Ok let me clarify that with "Hell no!"

Orlando VA for example has telephone triage topped off with a system that calls everyday to cover topics with veterans electronically to evaluate conditions daily. Frustrating at times but easy to get through and most of the time the topic of the day is anger management. The recording address making daily tasks, diet-nutrition and other things that can be done along with questions to evaluate the conditions the veteran is experiencing on a daily basis. If the veteran does not answer or return the call, they receive a follow-up call.

After that claim the nest was that anger never goes away. That one is totally wrong because anger does in fact go away for the most part and whatever is left can be dealt with by countering the anger fueled by PTSD.

"But in someone who suffers from PTSD, that anger never really goes away. That person is stuck in a holding pattern that stores that explosive anger right below the surface."

I've seen it for the last 30 years with the right kind of care addressing the body-mind-spirit connection anger is no longer in control of anything. Plus I live with it on a daily basis.

This is directly tied back to the DOD and their Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, producing the same notion Battlemind did that they could train their brains to be tough enough to prevent PTSD. In other words the DOD has been telling them year after year it is their fault and they are weak minded.

"For about two years, he struggled with getting recognition and care because he had an “invisible” injury. Without the extensive letter writing campaign by Moose’s father, David McArthur (local small business owner and occasional Fox News contributor), Moose and many other soldiers with “invisible” injuries would still be fighting to receive the Purple Hearts they deserve. Other soldiers called him “yellow” and “stupid” and accused him of faking his injuries."

There is so much that is being forgotten about because no one seems to want to research what has been done since the 70's. Yes, since the 70's but even though they seem to always bring up Vietnam veterans they never manage to be able to bring up the fact these veterans are not only responsible for everything available on PTSD right now, they are proof that life goes on even after PTSD tried to get full control. That they were able to not just heal but help others during a time when no one had a computer. They did it all because they never gave up on the rest of us no matter how we treated them.

This is no where near the scandal the author wanted to pass on. Readers of Wounded Times know what the real one is and that it we have not lived up to taking care of our veterans for generations and we won't come close until people with the platform know what they are talking about.