tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236709603402341425.post2567546946843065676..comments2023-09-22T01:40:48.855-07:00Comments on What's Really Wrong in America?: PTSD...Just how "POST" is the trauma?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-236709603402341425.post-57289927584808644572008-11-30T06:23:00.000-08:002008-11-30T06:23:00.000-08:00Very nice post. I've been doing outreach work wit...Very nice post. I've been doing outreach work with veterans coping with PTSD and their families for over 25 years now. My husband is a Vietnam Vet with PTSD.<BR/><BR/>I have to say that I've never seen it this bad for our veterans but I've also never had so much hope. Beyond the mind boggling numbers reported, they are not even close. Using the numbers from Vietnam, adjusting for the 50% increase risk for each redeployment, we're looking at about a million veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. With the survival rate increased of the severely wounded, it could very well be even more. By 1976 the DAV study showed 500,000 Vietnam vets with PTSD just to give you an idea of where this is coming from.<BR/><BR/>You wrote that the veterans needed someone to love, but in that comes a whole host of other problems. While we all need to be loved, when the civilian does not understand what the veteran is going through, all kinds of other issues follow. The citizens of this country need to become aware of what PTSD is and know all that comes with it so they are able to avoid all the mistakes we've made over the years. We look at them a lot differently when we know what it is. We no longer see them as damaged but as wounded.<BR/><BR/>Please post as often as you can on PTSD because the more we all talk about it, put a spotlight on it and them, the sooner the stigma will erode. <BR/><BR/>If you want to learn more go to my blog www.woundedtimes.blogspot.com or my web site, www.namguardianangel.comKathie Costoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05930848909252282916noreply@blogger.com