Our Brothers With PTSD

[Texas_Bryan]

Thanks for the info guys, specially the first hand accounts from the folks that do have that condition.

I talk often with this fellow, he talks about his service on occasion, I don't lead the conversation when he does, but just listen to his experiences.  He got to talking about his condition and said that it affects him now socially, illogical distrust and nervousness regarding new people, and avoidance of crowds.  Surely a different type than I've met in the past, some guys that brought it up seemed a bit angry about it, like the service had kicked them out when they didn't deserve it.  I can't comment on that because I've never been there.

Surely this has given me a truer picture of the condition.  The only two schools of thought in the past were both extremes, either it was pictured as making people ultra violent crazies, or caused them to not be able to function at their job in the service, and other than that they were normal.  Now I've seen that it is something that haunts a normal person and effects them in their daily lives and has a real impact on how they interact and see the world.

It would be nice to see people educate themselves regarding this issue, with so many service men coming home.  To see that they aren't dangerous people, failures in the service, or weak minded, but people who sacrificed part of there well being, even if it wasn't physical, to the protection of our country.  I would like to think I'm a little closer to being educated.