I am pleased to have scooped NAMI and Fox News on this one by two years.
Some people say we have dumbed down PTSD, and that we dishonor the suffering of soldiers when we give the diagnosis of PTSD to people who have the same symptoms and same brain dysfunction of PTSD, but whose traumas were of a lesser severity. In other medical departments, a broken leg is a broken leg, whether the person fell three feet or thirty.
Back in May, 2010 I proposed that the way to honor soldiers whose PTSD is the result of war injury is the way we honor any soldier wounded in war -- the Purple Heart.
Better yet, let's honor their sacrifice by preventing their trauma in the first place. No more!
Meanwhile, check out Guitars for Vets.
Some people say we have dumbed down PTSD, and that we dishonor the suffering of soldiers when we give the diagnosis of PTSD to people who have the same symptoms and same brain dysfunction of PTSD, but whose traumas were of a lesser severity. In other medical departments, a broken leg is a broken leg, whether the person fell three feet or thirty.
Back in May, 2010 I proposed that the way to honor soldiers whose PTSD is the result of war injury is the way we honor any soldier wounded in war -- the Purple Heart.
Better yet, let's honor their sacrifice by preventing their trauma in the first place. No more!
Meanwhile, check out Guitars for Vets.
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