"Among hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans living with PTSD, some openly worry that a weighty trial built on an insanity defense will reignite PTSD's social stigma."
Well, stop right there. What about Gulf War veterans? What about Vietnam veterans? What about Korean War veterans? How about the remaining WWII veterans? Reporters do remember them. Don't they? After all, had it not been for all those other generations of veterans taking the lead, people would still be using the term "shell shock" instead of PTSD. Oh, by the way, that term, unlike the limited ability of the press to actually do some research, started in the 70's.
The VA is treating all those generations as well as the Afghanistan and Iraq veterans but the press likes to leave that part out. After all, then they'd actually have to actually do some work instead of just trolling Facebook for someone posting about what they think.
The facts on this are obvious to the rest of us living with PTSD connected to military service and that my friends, includes the families, just like mine.
According to them we don't stay married. We'll we've been married 30 years and managed to get through all these years, most of which were the worst years before the Internet got families like mine connected.
According to them, we're all supposed to be afraid of a famous trial fueling the stigma of PTSD. Well, since PTSD has been in the news for decades and reporters still haven't even come close to understanding it or doing much to remove the stigma, we were all sold out.
They want people to believe that PTSD is everything it is not while covering up what it is. You can read the rest of the article here if you feel the need.
Chris Kyle Trial: Vets Fear Insanity Defense Will Grow PTSD Stigma
NBC News
BY BILL BRIGGS
February 10, 2015
The trial of the man accused of killing Chris Kyle opens this week with a legal question wrapped in Hollywood irony.
Will post-traumatic stress syndrome become the legal defense for murdering the "American Sniper" — a man who helped other veterans battle the same affliction?
Attorneys for defendant Eddie Ray Routh, an Iraq War veteran, have asked prospective jurors whether they would consider an insanity defense. Moments after the 2013 shootings of Kyle and a friend, Routh's family told police that Routh was diagnosed with PTSD and stayed at a mental hospital.
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Pretty much its the same crap we've heard all along just like the bullshit of this suicide bill being any different than what was already done or that program is new and improved. Its all bullshit!
Ok, so now for what they just don't have time to tell you. This is what veterans and families go through.
You grieve because there is a lot of good inside of you. Evil people don't grieve. You have PTSD because your life was on the line and the strength of your emotional core is much deeper than others. You feel good more than they do but that also means you feel pain more. You know, the kind of pain that fuels courage. That pull on everything inside of you to rush out into the middle of the street to save a kid and the balls to do it. To rush into enemy fire to recover the body of someone from your unit even though you knew he wasn't alive.
Vietnam veterans know exactly what you're going through and so do their families. Ask us and we'll clue you in on what reporters don't care about and all the internet instant experts don't have a clue about.
You are not supposed to forget about where you were, what you did, what you went through, what was done to you but you are supposed to think about it all in a different way so that you don't feel as if people are telling you for forget your buddies as if they didn't matter.
You can remember and find peace with those memories.
Sammy Davis, Vietnam Medal of Honor veteran tells it like it is.
As for the rest, don't expect the civilian population to understand a damn thing about any of this. They can't understand what only 7% understand because they lived it.
oh my god so dangerious
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