PTSD? Bull!

PTSD? Bull! it’s soldier’s heart!

The late George Carlin did not like the phrase "post-traumatic stress disorder." He said, ' I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation.”...........

It is not, however, a medical “disorder”. That is, it is not an illness – something you catch and which generally can be “cured”. It is very definitely an imposed condition – something real that the soldier has experienced and from which recovery is never complete, no matter how hard they and we try. Those who claim that they came back from combat unaffected are either psychopathic or lying to you and themselves.

But, by calling it a disorder – an illness – we can then point out that it doesn’t seem to affect everyone, therefore it must affect only those with an underlying weakness, or perhaps “they weren’t brought up to be tough”. Worst of all, we dismiss them from service under the cover of a “preexisting condition”. The soldier who knows that he or she was just fine when leaving home and joining the service, now is told that he or she was really always just spoiled goods............>>>>>Rest Here

"War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press ... have turned war into a vast video arcade game. It’s very essence – death – is hidden from public view."
Chris Hedges Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter ,New York Times