Another great article I have found in my pursuit to understand what Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is and what it looks and feels like in myself, and others.

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After I reblogged this, another fine tax-paying American with an opinion made a comment for a CURE to this “fictitious and ludicrous waste of our tax-payers dollars” that is PTSD.  Please read the whole article, and then make sure to read the respondents comment below. This proves there are people out there who are ignorant and in grave dereliction of their duty as an American to understand and support. Make it be known. I didn’t risk my life, or act in anyway to take another’s life For Jan Corey, or for anyone else like her.

JanCorey says:

10/30/2012 at 1:21 PM

I have a cure for PTSD for soldiers. First and foremost, continue to treat those claiming PTSD and continue to prescribe all those medications for them at tax-payers expense if that helps them out. But, the cure for PTSD is to completely eliminate any and all funding in cash through monthly checks to these soldiers claiming such a disorder, and that will soon dry up the fictitious and ludicrous waste of our tax-payers dollars. Amazing that PTSD never existed before the Gulf war when soldiers started to receive monthly cash payments for a claim, how did all our soldiers in history ever function without a monthly check based upon their PTSD-claim? Eliminate the money and we’ll eliminate the signs and symptoms. Easy-peasy.

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What is PTSD??

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an emotional illness that develops as a result of a terribly frightening, life-threatening, or otherwise highly unsafe experience. PTSD sufferers re-experience the traumatic event or events in some way, tend to avoid places, people, or other things that remind them of the event (avoidance), and are exquisitely sensitive to normal life experiences (hyperarousal). Although this condition has likely existed since human beings have endured trauma, PTSD has only been recognized as a formal diagnosis since 1980. However, it was called by different names as early as the American Civil War, when combat veterans were referred to as suffering from “soldier’s heart.” In World War I, symptoms that were generally consistent with PTSD were referred to as “combat fatigue.” Soldiers who developed such symptoms in World War II were said to be suffering from “gross stress reaction,” and many who fought in Vietnam…

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