anthony
Founder
What do you think?
http://www.psmag.com/health-and-beh...d-eddie-ray-routh-for-the-death-of-chris-kyle
Whilst this is purely an example story based on the recent trial for Chris Kyle... do you think PTSD is attributable to violence?
Here is my example for why I do believe PTSD has a correlation to violence.
Before the military I hated fighting. Despised it. If I could talk my way out of it, or get away, I would. Fighting was an absolutely last resort.
In the military I got into fights when out, but not very often. A handful at best, and was purely in a mate style backup because they got themselves into it, more often than not.
After combat / operational exposure I got into more fights immediately after returning home, during the decompression stage, and hurt and hospitalised people, though come good again to the above level.
Once PTSD fully kicked in, I wanted to kill. I would have killed if someone upset me. I isolated myself to avoid what my brain wanted to do, to try and get the rage out of me. I certainly hurt people physically, as in put them in hospital.
After a year of time and therapy, removing alcohol as much as possible if going outside the house, I got the desire to kill out of my system again, though if upset I was still highly aggressive.
Many years later again, I no longer want to kill or go and fight, but its taken a lot of self work combined with time to reach that level again.
Military training + operational deployment + PTSD = a volatile, unpredictable trained killer.
So... can PTSD be linked to violence? IMO, yes... but it was not the only contributing factor, military training and putting that training into action in operational zones, combined, was the overall problem.
PTSD by itself? I don't believe so, no.
http://www.psmag.com/health-and-beh...d-eddie-ray-routh-for-the-death-of-chris-kyle
Whilst this is purely an example story based on the recent trial for Chris Kyle... do you think PTSD is attributable to violence?
Here is my example for why I do believe PTSD has a correlation to violence.
Before the military I hated fighting. Despised it. If I could talk my way out of it, or get away, I would. Fighting was an absolutely last resort.
In the military I got into fights when out, but not very often. A handful at best, and was purely in a mate style backup because they got themselves into it, more often than not.
After combat / operational exposure I got into more fights immediately after returning home, during the decompression stage, and hurt and hospitalised people, though come good again to the above level.
Once PTSD fully kicked in, I wanted to kill. I would have killed if someone upset me. I isolated myself to avoid what my brain wanted to do, to try and get the rage out of me. I certainly hurt people physically, as in put them in hospital.
After a year of time and therapy, removing alcohol as much as possible if going outside the house, I got the desire to kill out of my system again, though if upset I was still highly aggressive.
Many years later again, I no longer want to kill or go and fight, but its taken a lot of self work combined with time to reach that level again.
Military training + operational deployment + PTSD = a volatile, unpredictable trained killer.
So... can PTSD be linked to violence? IMO, yes... but it was not the only contributing factor, military training and putting that training into action in operational zones, combined, was the overall problem.
PTSD by itself? I don't believe so, no.