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Old 05-15-2008, 08:07 PM   #5 (permalink)
sleepwalk

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I think it has more to do with the diagnosis of PTSD. My grandfather never was diagnosed when he came back from WWII and a friend of mine never was after Nam. They refuse to talk about anything except how awful the food was. PTSD? Maybe. I haven't sat in on what constitutes a correct diagnosis or not.

It's not that these men and women haven't been through hell. I believe that they have and that PTSD is real and is a problem. It's just that we are encountering it now and when it used to be "shell shock" the symptoms were put into two categories: "severe" and "who cares?"
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