I knew someone with PTSD. He said that he got very nervous being in crowds, because he could never be sure that someone wasn’t using the crowd as a cover from which to snipe at him.
For a lot of people, PTSD is the fear of being attacked, after having spent many months in a heightened state of awareness in a combat zone.
I’ve never before heard of PTSD being a reaction to observing or committing a war crime. Leave it to liberals to try to poison the perception of a real psychological issue that some troops experience after being in a combat environment.
PTSD is not limited to military personnel and veterans. It can happen to anyone as a result of any traumatic event.
Yes it can happen to any one. I think I suffered PTSD or something like it after my son was killed. I continued to relive the policemen telling me that he had been killed. It ran constantly like a negative movie film in front of my eyes. I could see through it but I was mesmerized by it and I was powerless to stop it. Most bizarre thing that has ever happened to me.
One of my buddies had some PTSD going. Not on any medication, he just drank more than he should. It was a phase, we supported him, looked out for him, kept him safe, and he got better.
I met someone who had PTSD while I was in Minnesota. He was afraid to ride the light rail in Minneapolis, specifically where it went by the airport. The noise in the tunnel would cause him to freak out. And when he had such an episode (covering his ears, crying), he would also be profusely apologizing to those around him - he was embarrassed by his reaction. Well I got to talking to him. Turns out he was driving a truck somewhere in the sandbox and an IED happened to go off.
I now live in Houston, where one of my neighbors is a “psychoanalyst” at the VA hospital not far from me. He is also a lefty. He considers each of his patients to be carrying the guilt of the “evil they did following the orders of Bush and Cheney”. Yes, this (censored) works in a VA hospital and messes with the heads of veterans.