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Originally Posted by dave angel
thank you bluesman. i am grateful for your support, i know PTSD can seem a bit like lepresy in the military sometimes so its nice when people just treat it just like any other injury.
now soldiers - in the british army at least, not sure about the culture in the US Army - are able to be more open about PTSD it appears to be becoming less of a problem in that it is diagnosed earlier and treated more effectively.
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I think that's true here, too, but not being an actual member of the combat veteran community myself, I may have misinterpreted it.
One of our guys took some time off of the rotation to kind of re-tune his head. When he came back online, the fellas really seemed to rally 'round him, and he wasn't treated as the black duckling, or anything like that. But another guy that I work with (and like me, not a combat veteran, so HE could be wrong, too) said he thought they were treating him EXTRA careful, like a charity case almost. Not my take, but I do know that he was invited to a party that everybody else said they were spreading the word that nobody was supposed to get drunk, or encourage alcohol intake.
I have never received training in spotting symptoms of PTSD. We are supposed to refer any concerns that we have up the cahin. But frankly, I think we need to at least get junior officers and senior NCOs into the ID business. I know my role, and it's not therapist nor counselor, so I do not think that would be called-for. But I'm the guy with the greatest amount of contact with my people; I should have a larger role in spotting the 'non-bleeing wound'.