how long will it be before they say vets can’t own guns?
On Foxnews they are saying he was stopped by an officer who was armed. They didn’t say the officer was a cop or security. She just happened to step out of her office and saw him.
The judge and others are saying the problem is that everyone is disarmed on US military bases.
If the doctors are treating it correctly there's no need to take away their guns. I know of no one with PTSD who wants to kill anyone "IF GIVEN THE PROPER TREATMENT". I have seen improper medication treatment of PTSD cause persons to go psychotic. The military is not known for proper mental health care.
PTSD should be a career ender with the Vet given treatment back home under the care of a psychologist or LCSW and actually their family doctor can handle the medications side of it. The person should be given full disability pay until they have completed treatment. We are talking about years not months.
I've had PTSD. It took about 5 years to be free of it. Mine wasn't due to my service. My wife had PTSD and clinical depression. The medication that was given her made her psychotic and hallucinate. She was given antidepressants.
Special care should be given with antidepressants used to treat PTSD actually IMO unless a very extensive neurological history indicates no neurological impairments they should not be used for treating PTSD.
99.99% of persons who take antidepressants will likely not suffer any type of adverse reaction. Those who do it can be anything mild from headaches, stomach ache, etc to psychotic behavior and hallucinations. This all too often is not caught by doctors and instead they label the adverse reaction as severe mental illness. Check my posting history this past week where a Freeper was talking about seizures. There's a lot of info in that thread about antidepressants & adverse reactions. The military, the VA, and doctors need to do a serious review on the medications side of the treatment for PTSD.
The real cure for PTSD is therapy and time. Keeping a service member in the military with PTSD is not working toward a cure nor effective treatment.
BTW anyone besides myself remember early on in Gulf War Two there were rumors that the military was passing out antidepressants to combat troops? Very, very, dangerous policy.