TBI and PTSD War Wounds Do Heal, No Cure For Stupidity

Sometimes I really wonder where reporters find these people! Wounds of war that never heal on the Washington Post, by Amy Ellis Nutt, is about TBI. Really bad title considering it ended up attacking PTSD veterans.

This gives us an idea of how many have TBI since the numbers went way up since 2005.

And this is what the article had to say.

Once World War I ended, blast injuries were not the leading cause of combat injury until the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Vietnam War, however, did produce the first diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, which Koliatsos believes has helped to stigmatize IED survivors who return home but have enormous difficulties adjusting."

“We thought it was hysteria in World War I and then came PTSD in Vietnam,” he said, so we continued to think of these [hidden] injuries only as psychological.”

In saying IED survivors were stigmatized, Koliatsos just managed to slam PTSD veterans. That is the wound that will never heal. PTSD is nothing to be ashamed of. TBI is nothing to be ashamed of. Isn't it time for "experts" to stop feeding the stigma? PTSD and TBI do heal. They are not cured. Unfortunately there is no cure for stupidity.