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Originally Posted by booker
...I get the feeling that there are quite a few people who are using the system on the PTSD front...
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Absolutely. And most of them should read up on it before faking what they think are the symptoms. Some REMF/Fobbit/POGs are pretty good at balling for cash at the VA because they saw some tracer rounds arc up into the sky from a klick away.
Those emotions highlighted in
The Best Years of Our Lives, the sense that you have changed and the world has not, the feeling that you no longer fit in, may not be a "disorder" at all. I think its perfectly normal for men who've been in combat fairly routinely to feel, once they return to the trivial world, that they don't belong there. Combat is a character-building experience. It matures you in many ways, it makes you different. It also makes you a lot less willing to put up with disrespect and petty bullshit. Is that part of PTSD? I don't know.