My vet and I are friends with a woman he knows through a mate. She is a physical training instructor in the Army.
I was talking to her on the phone last night - she knows I am away from my vet visiting family - and she told me how she's spoken to my vet's former CO and he says they didn't really see anything bad and that he should still be working not on a pension. WTF?
I told her that I had read his psych reports - which I have. I asked her which deployment this guy was CO on. She wasn't sure. I pointed out my vet deployed ten times.
She kept saying that it's not the Army that gives people PTSD - it's a lack of proper nurturing as a small child which means they don't learn the necessary "coping skills" and that he would have "cracked" no matter what career he chose. He was the adored youngest child and only son.
She told me she has PTSD from an abusive relationship and there is no pension for her.
I see all the reasons it suits her to see the world that way but I feel like she basically called my vet a malingerer.
Just venting I guess but the whole conversation made me angry. Sigh!
I was talking to her on the phone last night - she knows I am away from my vet visiting family - and she told me how she's spoken to my vet's former CO and he says they didn't really see anything bad and that he should still be working not on a pension. WTF?
I told her that I had read his psych reports - which I have. I asked her which deployment this guy was CO on. She wasn't sure. I pointed out my vet deployed ten times.
She kept saying that it's not the Army that gives people PTSD - it's a lack of proper nurturing as a small child which means they don't learn the necessary "coping skills" and that he would have "cracked" no matter what career he chose. He was the adored youngest child and only son.
She told me she has PTSD from an abusive relationship and there is no pension for her.
I see all the reasons it suits her to see the world that way but I feel like she basically called my vet a malingerer.
Just venting I guess but the whole conversation made me angry. Sigh!
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