[pissant]

His suicide had nothing to do with the military. He was nuts.

[verity]

"Her husband had battled bouts of depression for most of his adult life."

Unfortunately, he lost the final bout.

[G Larry]

Please don’t spread your ignorance here!

I just spent the last couple years trying to support a friend with PTSD, via long distance.
She’d been an Army Reserve nurse during the 1st Gulf War.
She’d been 1st on scene of many multi-casualty attacks.
Then came the Embassey bombing, with so many severely injured that she couldn’t act, and never got the episode out of her mind.
Later, stateside, she cared for her mother, during a long suffering illness, until her death.
Her cyclical depression ended a few weeks ago in her tragic death.
It’s easy to be skeptical of PTSD until you get close to somebody trying to deal with it.