PTSD from Wars

My wife made an interesting point with me today. She said, "No wonder soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan have PTSD, all the people they served with aren't near to them and are scattered all across the country. So, everyone who shared their experience overseas isn't there."

My thought about this is it would be like becoming friends and family with the soldiers you serve with and then 1 or 2 or 3 years or tours later never seeing them again ever possibly. This also gives people a form of PTSD and it is why men or women often self destruct when their families break up.

So, in this context, PTSD from warfare makes even more sense.

So, let's say you didn't really know who you were when you joined the Army or another branch of armed forces for the U.S. because you were 17 or 18. Then you were hammered into a tool used by the U.S. government to bend situations to the government's will. Then one day you come home and you don't know who you are out of this context and your home is now a strange place because you have seen a lot of people die including some of your friends. Why would you want to live if you didn't understand spirituality or psychology enough to figure all this out?

This is the real problem veterans are facing. They are strangers to themselves here in the U.S. and even their families are strangers to them and their friends who didn't see people die and maimed like they did. They can't relate to themselves, their families or their old friends. Why wouldn't they want to die?

This is the real problem people coming back from war with PTSD face.

And I don't think anti-depressants would help either because they tend to alienate people even further from themselves so they are living in a completely unreal world unlike anything they knew growing up or in the military.

So, from my personal point of view Anti-depressants and other drugs (especially when people are going on or off them) often lead to suicide too.

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