My brother is 65 and has recently been diagnosed with PTSD. He hadn’t had a problem until the last couple of years, but has flashbacks while he’s at work.
He also has some fairly serious neurological damage, apparently from the Agent Orange and is now on full disability but continues to work - though he is moving toward retirement.
The VA has been super with him.
I should try to be less judgmental, I guess.
None of us really knows someone else, especially in their nightmares at 4 a.m.
I hope the vet I mentioned gets helped and I don’t begrudge him a disability pension. He is one of nature’s gentlemen, despite having had a lousy life. I do know that the prospect of treatment has had an obvious effect on him. He is noticeably more relaxed than he was. We had chalked up the tension to the fact that his wife’s daughter was living them and she is a selfish, immature piece of work. The parents have managed to separate themselves from the daughter, which could also have had a calming effect.
As they say: it’s complicated.