Do you think that PTSD has become over-diagnosed? This doesn’t mean that it isn’t sometimes legitimate.
We do know that lots more people are on disability now, a d something has to be used to get them there. I’m thinking mostly of people who don’t have military service.
Again, I am not trying to cast aspersions on real sufferers.
I just hear the term thrown around my building a lot. A lot of residents here are on disability, have drug and alcohol issues etc.
I don't know but I doubt it. The symptoms of PTSD are long term and a decent therapist will pick up on a fake. BTW a lot of PTSD patients self medicate. Sad to say they often use alcohol or drugs to deal with it.
I've had before it and I wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy. My PTSD happened a few years after I got out. My first wife age 23 died of a massive heart attack. I met a woman at work later and began dating. She collapsed and nearly died as I was taking her to the ER. She never walked again and has almost died a half dozen times since after we got married. My step daughter was in a bad car wreck which I arriver on scene and thought she was dead. A few months after that I was rear ended by a lady and thought her baby died. Then about the same time my sensory processing system began to deteriorate causing seizures and General Anxiety Disorder all at the same time. This was events in about a 8 year time frame.
I've sat in therapy sessions with SF vets who did Central America Ops and a Gulf from Gulf War One they too had PTSD. The guy in Central America ops had to make a choice no soldier ever wants to make to save his platoon. They were in a swamp and spotted by a woman.
You hear about it more because people are more educated now.