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To: TangledUpInBlue
. . . had sought help for depression, anxiety and other problems.

It sounds like he knew he had issues and was seeking help. I just hope he was being given all the help he needed, not what the government thought he needed.

Before the attack, he had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder . . .

By definition, PTSD involves some type of trauma. Can he really have PTSD if he were a truck driver (unless he had seen trucks blown up or attacked), or is the PTSD angle a liberal way of shifting the blame?

95 posted on 04/04/2014 8:18:51 AM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: jda

Who knows? Is it enough “trauma” just to be in a war zone and fear that your truck might get blown up?? That would seem a bit odd to me. But I guess you never know.


96 posted on 04/04/2014 8:56:12 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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To: jda
By definition, PTSD involves some type of trauma. Can he really have PTSD if he were a truck driver (unless he had seen trucks blown up or attacked), or is the PTSD angle a liberal way of shifting the blame?

PTSD can come from many things. It can be stress compounded by basically any other traumatic events while also under stress including an undetected physical issues the brain is dealing with also. I read on one thread his Mom had passed this winter I think. If he drove a truck in Iraq especially ammo he was a moving target. Trucks always have been.

98 posted on 04/04/2014 9:07:01 AM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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