[ClaireSolt]

PTSD is the new cause celeb. Right up there with global warming. It will be very expensive. The VA didn’t know how to diagnose or treat it. When I got it, I read that it lasts for life. I found ways to get over it, but the bureaucrats never will. They will just milk it.

[Alkhin]

I think thats the key though, isnt it? Each person has their own coping mechanisms, but we all eventually find ways to deal with it. I think its a real thing and not just a military phenomenon - think of how accidents and traumatic events affect others...I mean, for petes sake, I was having nightmares months after 9-11!! And having to deliver my preemie daughter was traumatic enough that I had 'reverberations' for years.

I so agree with you: the bureaucrats don't give a damn about helping others with finding coping mechanisms - its just another money making thing with them. They capitalize on human weakness, they dont serve foster human strength.