Anyone Else With Ptsd That Is Not From The Military Feel Slighted?

[Fofop]

The public simply needs more awareness and better information. Right now, their is no information going to them. They assume that fireworks sound similar to what a vet had to endure for multiple deployments. And maybe their guess is correct.

What they are ignorant about is that PTSD is not merely psychological. It is also very biological. And it doesn't matter what sensory conditions were present during the formation of PTSD, what matters is what triggers symptoms and vicious cycles now. I bet few know what PTSD is really like. But thanks in part to movie characters and shows, there is growing curiosity about PTSD, OCD, and DID. Not that the shows and films are that accurate. But all publicity is good publicity.

Loud sounds and bright lights had nothing whatsoever to do with my trauma. But they usually provide a significant challenge now, if not bringing on immediate symptoms, by draining out every drop of energy fighting those symptoms.

We should impose a higher standard of people here at home for all of us with PTSD, making noise ordinances, decibel level monitoring in restaurants and parks, and generally making it safer for people who get overstimulated to still enjoy the movies and public places. Autism, OCD, and I'm sure many other conditions demand a similar consideration, maybe more so.

 

[Uzug]

I am not going to be irritable if I am disagreed with about this.

We should impose a higher standard of people here at home for all of us with PTSD, making noise ordinances, decibel level monitoring in restaurants and parks, and generally making it safer for people who get overstimulated to still enjoy the movies and public places.

I see where you're coming from, but I don't think this is a good idea.

In my opinion. Something like this, is really only going to cause resentment. While it would be great to walk to the shops without hearing sirens. I can't possibly expect the local emergency services to go on silent running mode because I am out the house. It's just something I have to live with.

Nor would I feel right making half a theatre of movie goers leave, because I don't like crowds.

Not to mention the enormous expense of enforcing this kind of thing. That money would be better spent towards health care benefits for people with ptsd. If you can provide good quality trauma therapy to more people that need it. You will reduce the amount of people upset with noise, crowds, whatever.

I know if I had to choose between hard therapy to learn to cope with real life, or make everyone else shut up because I don't like noise. I'll take the therapy any day. I hate feeling like a crazy person. I don't want people's pity, I don't want to subject everyone around me to fear of punishment for trying to enjoy their lives. Empathy is great, but I don't want anyone to really understand how it feels to be me. I hate my life. It's tolerable enough that I haven't ended it, but I don't call this living.

Looking at the point of this whole thread, I don't disagree that there possibly are differences in the level of care available for people with ptsd depending on how they got it. That's probably true, how true? I don't know.

I totally disagree with turning that frustration towards the vets who have nothing to do with the cause of this imbalance of care.

To be fair as well. I don't agree with the idea that all publicity is good publicity.

It used to be that having military service on your resume, was beneficial to finding a job, post service. Unfortunately nowadays with people that use ptsd as a excuse to commit horrid crimes. It's becoming something that a prospective employer looks for as reason to deny employment.

Most people can't be bothered to look at whether or not these claims of ptsd are valid. While they may find the topic interesting for reading in the morning paper with breakfast, they are unlikely to actually do in-depth research to see for themselves that these claims are bullshit.

Not being a combat vet, I can't claim to understand what they have been through, or how PTSD mixes with their training. But I know I have seen enough horror and death for one lifetime, I don't want to cause more. Can't imagine they would either. But this is the garbage people read in the news.

Like I said, this is my opinion on this. I won't call you wrong for wanting to make life better for people. I just don't agree on the method.

 

[Kabeko]

Absolutely. I feel as if people with PTSD who aren't in the military deserve more sympathy; if you delight in murdering innocent Middle Eastern women and children in the name of oil company interests then you deserve PTSD and much, much more.

 

[Dozi]

then you deserve PTSD and much, much more.

You're not anonymous to me (Anthony), be very very careful as your speech is bordering hate, which is against this communities legal policy and will result in immediate termination. Just to ensure you know who I am -- you aren't even diagnosed with PTSD.

Tread carefully please, and leave your hate speech at the door.

 

[Damam]

Surely whoever Kabeko is should be banned for that comment? I'm SO over our vets being called murderers by people who don't have the courage to put their hand out for a rifle!

 

[Iwoj]

I'm SO over our vets being called murderers by people who don't have the courage to put their hand out for a rifle!

That doesn't stop people being allowed their opinion though, which MyPTSD allows. We just ask that opinions be done in a manner that isn't hate, racial, or such.

 

[Oke]

As far as free/ cheap treatment for vets... You do realize that it is part of their benefits? They earn it with their pay, because they damn sure don't get paid enough.

How much would they have to pay you to get shot at?