Have PTSD & Traumatic Brain Injury recognized as legitimate combat injuries & recognized far sooner. This question extends outside the US & beyond the uneven & haphazard attention of the past century.
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For the Wars like the civil-war War, World War I, World Warand Korea does not have, at first glance, as muchIf these studies could have been done and followup up with long term scientific studies, it could go a long way to treat victims after WW2 and other conflicts. it might allow better treatment for Veterans in their later years after retirement and discharges.
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I think you can expedite treatment by society or the military, by looking at veterans with PTSD from a different angle. ... when a soldier is outside of the optimal norm, he is treated to restore him to the ideal state. A roundabout way to establish better care for veterans, but a starting point nonetheless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_CalhounYes, the Viet Nam vet as a angry dangerous man. That existed in the public mind by 1972, when I first heard a psycho vet story. There were a few sympathetic depictions on TV or the movies, but the Hollywood take on the Rambo story was the stereotype.
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As for TBI ... the stereotype of punch-drunk boxers has been around for centuries, but armies preferred to ignore it. They hoped that brain-injured soldiers would die before collecting much of their pensions.
The Afghan War saw two major changes. First armoured vehicles, body and head armour helped far more amputees survive.
Secondly, larger and larger road-side bombs tossed soldiers about inside armoured vehicles until tumbling did more brain-damage than blast.
That's the thing, the US mental health treatment lagged badly. You'd need an earlier cultural overhaul around the subject of mental health. As you're pointing out even now we're criminally backwards on helping vets; thanks for doing what you're doing for these guys.Yeah its tragic. Tomorrow afternoon I'm meeting one vet to help work out a financial salvage plan. He's three months behind on the mortgage, has unpaid utility bills & has been unemployed for near six months. The county VSO has after two months of effort gotten him plugged into the VA treatment program. Later tomorrow I'll be doing a second interview on another with significant mental health issues, Last week I did a finical assessment on a vet & got up to speed on his supervision by the state veterans court. He's seeing a VA psychiatrist twice a week & a civilian MH therapist once a week. I do this part time a few hours a week, but it has added up to over 120 stories in the last four years.
Whether or not soldiers suffer PTSD depends upon how they are treated before and after battle. Modern armies now teach resiliency to soldiers before they deploy to fight overseas.
After the battle, soldiers are encouraged to talk over their experiences with buddies then quietly go home.
The worst thing you can do to a veteran is ask him/her to repeat his story dozens of times. Repetition burns miserable memories into long-term memory.
In my case, I was injured in a plane crash and was ready to forget the experience a couple of months after the accident. But lawyers forced me to testify a dozen times and dragged lawsuits out for 9 miserable years. They never compensated me for any lost wages, surgery or psychological problems that ocuured during the lengthy legal process.
Guess how much I trust lawyers now?
One ancient African tribe used to welcome warriors home with a big party. He told his tales to his entire tribe. His uniform was burned and his spear was buried. That ceremony marked the end of his fighting days.
As for TBI ... the stereotype of punch-drunk boxers has been around for centuries, but armies preferred to ignore it. They hoped that brain-injured soldiers would die before collecting much of their pensions.
The Afghan War saw two major changes. First armoured vehicles, body and head armour helped far more amputees survive.
Secondly, larger and larger road-side bombs tossed soldiers about inside armoured vehicles until tumbling did more brain-damage than blast.