Posted on 05/06/2007 3:07:07 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
Curtis and Shari Miles reach for a lifeline whenever they are asked about Paul.
They take and hold each other's hand.
Married 27 years, this East Texas couple understands how much such a small expression of support, of togetherness, means.
After their son Paul was arrested and jailed after a two-week stay at a psychiatric hospital, the parents weren't allowed to touch him, much less embrace him, as they did in December 2005. That's when the tall, lanky soldier arrived at Fort Hood to a hero's welcome after an 11-month deployment to Iraq
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
There are going to be a lot of PTSD cases when this war is over. It is a real condition too.
In some cases. But this guy seems to have a manic-depressive diagnosis, not a PTSD diagnosis. My sympathy level also is fairly low for anti-Christians who go around growing mushrooms and making pipe bombs.
I didn’t read the whole article. Sounds like he does have mental illness.
Yeh.....Here it comes again:
“In this country, we have a huge bias against mental health issues. ... During Vietnam if a [veteran] committed a petty crime, what did we do? We locked him up. Did they get the mental healthcare they need? No. So they come out, as a convicted felon with a mental health problem, and say, ‘Will you hire me?’ That doesn’t work. They are even further traumatized. They can’t get meaningful work. They don’t get treatment and get thrown back in prison.”
Curtis Miles looked at his wife and clutched her hand.
“You can go down the streets in Fort Worth and see 50- and 60-year-old men who are Vietnam vets who spent their whole adult lives in and out of prison and on the streets because we want to take soldiers who are heroes, that are damaged, and throw them in prison rather than give them the help that they need.”
Yeh.....pipebomb and drugs......
“His parents first witnessed signs of post-traumatic stress disorder when Miles drove the family car. He suddenly floored the accelerator and turned the wheel sharply as he approached an underpass in Killeen.”
“Back in college, he grew irritable and remote. He began drinking more. He couldn’t sleep and lost weight. His grades fell.”
This sounds like a Phsycotic Episode to me.
“Inside Miles’ closet — Timmons produced the key — they also found marijuana plants and psilocybin mushrooms”
The man has departed all reality.
My Dad served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific.
His aircraft carrier got hit by a Kamikaze and many guys got killed from all the flames.
When the war was over he did some heavy duty drinking.
War is an unpleasant business.
This doesn’t sound like manic-depressive to me. I have seen a lot of bipolar. There don’t seem to be any highs here, only lows. It sounds like he was a good guy before the war. (Christian, caring and responsible). The military owes this soldier first rate treatment for whatever the problem is. He volunteered to face the enemy, so his classmates didn’t have to. I will give him the benefit of the doubt.
Whatever his mental stressors may be from serving, he most certainly doesn’t need his remaining honor and valor from serving taken away and the Demos are currently trying to do. This is where the redux of Vietnam is at its worst.
>>they also found marijuana plants and psilocybin mushrooms
Using this type of self medication to escape an unpleasant reality does not change that reality.
He’s going to need to learn some better coping skills.
Me too. We need our mental health system (both legal and medical) to use common sense to classify people as unequipped to be in charge of their own lives, and establish in-patient facilities designed for permanent residence, and productive life while in residence.
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