Thanks everyone for the warm welcomes. Anthony, they did know a little about PTSD way back when, but only in relation to war veterans--they called it "shell shock" and "battle fatigue"--and they certainly had little, if any, means for helping.
Goingonhope, I think misdiagnosis is still common...
If I had been correctly diagnosed 50 years ago and treated appropriately, I would have had an entirely different life. As it is, I careened from one self-destructive disaster to another, including amphetamine addiction, alcohol abuse, pot dependency, abusive relationships, even federal prison...