limbs were blown off, people shot and mangled and horrible atrocities suffered and witnessed and yet they came home and went to work or school.
I am told ( not sure I believe it ) is that PTSD is more common in a guerrilla/terrorist type of war because their are no rear areas. In WWII and Korea you could be pulled off the line for a while to keep your sanity and you pretty much knew you were safe.
Here you have soldiers that as they were enlisting they could not have been on drugs and yet they leave service and then they are plied with drugs.
Never made sense to me, especially when the anti-deppresants they give them have a warning about suicide for the user.
Got some bad news for you.
Vets from all modern day major
wars, suffer from PTSD. ie...
Neighbor next door; WWII vet.
90 years old, and still manages
to get up his roof at times to
guard his house at night.
Life long friend; Vietnam vet.
70 years old, ducks under the
bleachers when the cannon goes
off before a football game.
And both of these soldiers collect
a check from the VA for PTSD.
They weren’t supermen back then,
any more than they’re not today.
The reason you find it odd is because you are ignorant, and I don’t mean that as an insult. During training I received in the military we where shown videos of WW2 vets doing group therapy for PTSD in the 80s. They had it but back then the VA didn’t give service connected for it. These veterans talked about night terrors and isolating themselves from people or throwing themselves into their work to distract themselves from their problems. Or even worse self medicating with alcohol or drugs.
It was Vietnam veterans that fought and finally got it recognized by the VA as an actual condition.
If you really want to see some upsetting footage go on YouTube and look up the French films of WW1 vets suffering from shell shock, which is what PTSD was called in WW1.