Military PTSDers - A Couple Questions

[Manic11]

I am trying to understand military PTSD more. Because I have PTSD from abuse (there's a high probability of C-PTSD) I do not understand military PTSD as much I would like to. There is one thing specifically I have always wanted to know but I'm terrified of offending someone so I'm extremely sorry if I do. I do not mean it in any offense.

Obviously PTSD is extremely difficult. Because of this, I have always wanted to know if being in the Military was in fact worth it. Would you do it again? Do you regret doing it because of your PTSD?

Again I really hope I don't offend anyone by this thread.

Manic

 

[anthony]

If I could work without killing someone, I would be back in the forces in a heart beat. Absolutely loved the job... I signed on the dotted line, they didn't force me into it.

 

[CCurry]

I've often asked this question to my BF who spent 25 years in the US Special Forces if he would do it again knowing what he'll have to go through (severe PTSD). There is not one time when he said he wouldn't do it again and he gets upset when he sees someone being so ungrateful for the freedom that we have in our land.

So, a flying YES from him.

 

[Allen-deckard]

thats actually a near impossible question to answer. I'd have to say yes. But then again my last marriage ended in a horrable divorce. Would I have done it all over again?

 

[malibran]

Hello,

My BF was drafted in 1968 to serve in Vietnam . He was only just 19. He was a pacifist then and also now . He tells me it was the most monsterous time of his life. It took well over 36 years for him to seek help because he thought he was "fine" and everyone else had an issue. Rages, Nightmares, Divorce, Very fast to anger and Hypervigelent & Finally suicidal.
He would have run to Canada if he had known what he would be forced to do and see there. He would never ever have gone to serve there unless forced.
Good luck with your journey and all the best to you,

Malibran

 

[Gunchief]

I would do it again tomorrow.
Dave

 

[Manic11]

thats actually a near impossible question to answer. I'd have to say yes. But then again my last marriage ended in a horrable divorce. Would I have done it all over again?

Did it end in a divorce because of your PTSD?

Manic

 

[Allen-deckard]

I guess at this point where does my ptsd begin and I end? I'm not sure what is me or is the ptsd. But yah marriage was fine till after the war and i do know I changed dramatically. She didn't like the change hung around another 5 years blah blah long story.....But yah ptsd.

 

[Manic11]

How Do You Feel About Shooting/War Video Games?

I know my brothers love to play war/shooting video games. I am curious as to how anyone with Military PTSD feels about them.
Do you, personally, play them?
Do they trigger you?
Do you think they are wrong?

Manic

 

[2quilt]

Joining the Army was the worst thing I have ever done because I was injured, raped multiple times, the leadership did nothing but cover it up and promote the man who did it, I was abused by the leadership after that, I never recovered from my injury and got a medical discharge. During the war, that same leadership tried to make me mentally ill by making me sit on claymore mines during scud missile alerts, etc.

I hated the military and I work to make sure others don't join unless they know all the facts about the quality of life they will have to endure.

I don't like violent video games and I don't agree with the US military's use of them to lure young people into service. War is not like a video game. Military recruiters are not, in general, truthful.

I am grateful to all the people who have served to keep my country and the world more free, but I am against sending people to a war to die or become disabled based on political lies (Bush lied, folks) and if I had known that I would be raped and treated so badly, No, I would not have entered the Army.

If people entering the military know all the facts, like how much of their civil rights are removed while serving, and how they can't sue any military doctors for malpractice, and how the weapons are made by the lowest bidder and how the food is so terrible, and how they will probably get PTSD or become suicidal, etc, and they still want to join, let them join with that full knowledge.

I am patriotic, but not blind.

 

[CCurry]

Joining the Army was the worst thing I have ever done because I was injured, raped multiple times, the leadership did nothing but cover it up and promote the man who did it, I was abused by the leadership after that, I never recovered from my injury and got a medical discharge. During the war, that same leadership tried to make me mentally ill by making me sit on claymore mines during scud missile alerts, etc.

I hated the military and I work to make sure others don't join unless they know all the facts about the quality of life they will have to endure.

I don't like violent video games and I don't agree with the US military's use of them to lure young people into service. War is not like a video game. Military recruiters are not, in general, truthful.

I am grateful to all the people who have served to keep my country and the world more free, but I am against sending people to a war to die or become disabled based on political lies (Bush lied, folks) and if I had known that I would be raped and treated so badly, No, I would not have entered the Army.

If people entering the military know all the facts, like how much of their civil rights are removed while serving, and how they can't sue any military doctors for malpractice, and how the weapons are made by the lowest bidder and how the food is so terrible, and how they will probably get PTSD or become suicidal, etc, and they still want to join, let them join with that full knowledge.

I am patriotic, but not blind.

Knowing what I know from what my BF has had to deal with after he retired, I certainly would NOT encourage my son to join the military.

Having said that, according to my BF joining the Special Forces has been the absolute best thing he has done in his life and would not change one thing. I know I'm paraphrasing here but when I push him with why would anyone sign up for the unimaginable horrors that await them, he will often say....Evil will prevail if good men do not stand up.

C.

 

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Deleted post. I support our troops. There are too many variables to make a blanket statement.