Well I just feel like it demeans our soldiers who do suffer from PTSD. I have no basis for this opinion, but I bet a lot of soldiers do suffer - it just seems natural in a way to me. But I have not heard of a lot of them shooting over 40 people before being stopped. Something else is in the mix here. It seems obvious.
kcat heard the following on cnn: “ Gen.Honore or whatever his name is is on CNN talking about PTSD. This murderer had never been deployed!”
I am posting the following to clarify my position and to elminate any questions about my opinion:
Sometimes witnesses (innocent bystanders) to a horrific violent act can suffer from minor PTSD.. If they can suffer from major ptsd, I don’t know. That’s why I replied.
I’ve seen the effects of PTSD on one soldier, and suspect it on one other. It’s the saddest, more heartwrenching thing to witness. God bless them and heal them. please forget my opinion about ptsd, I DO NOT THINK THIS GUY HAD PTSD!
There are MANY of us who do, some more affected than others. It’s had many names over the centuries: shell-shock; combat fatigue; thousand-yard stare and so forth, but it’s been a part of combat and war since war began.
Mostly it’s what we do to ourselves rather than to others; only VERY rarely will it flow over onto others. Part of it can be how we respond to our spouses, to authority (especially overbearing, self-appointed authoritarians, like liberals or IRS agents or BATFags or drug cops or so-called big government “conservatives” of the type often found here on FR) figures. For the most part we internalize it, we isolate and we have a real hard time with relationships. Over time this does take a toll and we do have a high suicide rate.