tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post2193440369754101253..comments2023-06-28T07:59:16.685-04:00Comments on PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective: PTSD Rates: Part OneScott Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17861938200417302754noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post-72297019243741713242009-01-30T14:03:00.000-05:002009-01-30T14:03:00.000-05:00Updated info, Hoge, 2004 on the percentage of sold...Updated info, Hoge, 2004 on the percentage of soldiers who actually engaged in combat,<BR/><BR/>Veterans for America, 2008, on multiple tours.Scott Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17861938200417302754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post-9766450622462921732008-12-11T10:16:00.000-05:002008-12-11T10:16:00.000-05:00Hey brother, Welcome home. You are not alone, we a...Hey brother, Welcome home. You are not alone, we are in the face of one wondering near. I am here, so we see all that can be. <BR/><BR/>I hope you appealed your VA decision to deny you benefits. Many appeals are won, do yourself a favor and find someone to help you with this endeavor and to help find your way back from inside your head. Tis never a good place to be. <BR/><BR/>Much love brother. Keep fighting and do not give in to the beast within your mind.Scott Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17861938200417302754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post-53485799076613103172008-12-01T12:03:00.000-05:002008-12-01T12:03:00.000-05:00PTSDOn false pretext they sent me offTo murder and...PTSD<BR/><BR/>On false pretext they sent me off<BR/>To murder and create,<BR/>But there, ´twas hard to hold aloof<BR/>Vacuity of hate,<BR/>And now the matter rests with me<BR/>But I don´t rest at all,<BR/>And it may be PTSD<BR/>But I´m not blessed at all.<BR/><BR/>We are the men "that don´t fit in,"<BR/>There´s no more fitting now,<BR/>Because nobility struck tin<BR/>With which men did endow<BR/>Their fantasy, as left a mess<BR/>All scrambled in my mind,<BR/>So I was left with PTS<BR/>And D not far behind.<BR/><BR/>The army sez that my SD<BR/>Existed pre post-trauma,<BR/>So not a dime will give to me<BR/>Except I have my Momma<BR/>To tell me, hold my temper down<BR/>But she has never been there,<BR/>Where cognizance emerged full-blown<BR/>Smack in the midst of sin there.<BR/><BR/>I thought that I could be a hero,<BR/>That I could go to school,<BR/>But concentration nearly zero<BR/>Has made me look the fool,<BR/>And I may know the alphabet<BR/>My teachers taught to me,<BR/>But first, in their disorder, set<BR/>Now PTS and D.<BR/><BR/>I never knew the kind of rage<BR/>As in my brain inhabits,<BR/>But not a player on the stage<BR/>It is not shooting rabbits<BR/>That got me to an awful fix,<BR/>Though you might find it funny,<BR/>PTSD plays funny tricks,<BR/>I wouldn´t hurt Bugs Bunny--<BR/><BR/>And yet at minor provocation<BR/>I´d take a schoolbus out--<BR/>It´s all because I served a nation<BR/>That didn´t have a doubt:<BR/>Derangement by rage reinforced<BR/>Has got me drinking liquor,<BR/>But while I cauterize the worst<BR/>Hostility grows thicker.<BR/><BR/>So all young men who go to war,<BR/>Although your cause be noble--<BR/>They´ll show you that esprit de corps<BR/>But leave you with the trouble,<BR/>A peck of trouble, as with P<BR/>Preceding T and S,<BR/>And then at last a final D,<BR/>To lodge at your address.<BR/><BR/>Wherever you may go, and with<BR/>Self-medication helping,<BR/>There is no helping with the myth:<BR/>Hostility keeps whelping<BR/>Despite nobility pronounced<BR/>On all the TV stations--<BR/>PTSD, when they have pounced,<BR/>One´s burden, not the nation´s.<BR/><BR/>--I.M. SmallAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post-3104518529395460462008-11-28T15:27:00.000-05:002008-11-28T15:27:00.000-05:00Scott,Excellent work.Love,PamScott,<BR/>Excellent work.<BR/>Love,<BR/>PamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post-82205726502447068792008-11-28T05:23:00.000-05:002008-11-28T05:23:00.000-05:00You would be correct on both accounts. The militar...You would be correct on both accounts. The military has tightened up the qualifications for what qualifies as a service connected disability. We now have service members that have been injured by roadside bombs and by dodging mortar sounds that do not qualify for service connection compensation because they were not directly engaged in combat. Talk about cost saving measures. And the onset of most PTSD cases will be delayed due to the nature of the mental wounds and the indoctrination of the military. In about ten years we will see the largest increase of veterans with mental illness then we have ever seen. The world will be astounded as to the unique nature of this war verses its impact on our veterans and our nations inability to respond to the oncoming pandemic. Our veterans will be shattered unlike they have ever been.Scott Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17861938200417302754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207713177773691778.post-42152352078000177962008-11-27T15:08:00.000-05:002008-11-27T15:08:00.000-05:00Is the relatively low % of diagnosed cases today d...Is the relatively low % of diagnosed cases today due to increasing military restrictions on this diagnosis? I can't imagine that that number really reflects what's going on, especially not in light of the other facts and statistics you quoted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com