kyuuei
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I tell people all of the time, "If you were an asshole before you went to war, then it isn't PTSD making you act like an ass now."
I know a dude in our running group that pulls this shit sometimes. He'll get sloshed, act a fool, and then get angry that people think he's a fool, act out, and then blame the whole thing on PTSD. No. You don't have PTSD. Or maybe you do, but PTSD isn't a "get out of acting civil free" card. It just isn't. If you're so fucked up you're throwing punches at people for PTSD related reasons, then I'm calling the cops because you're hallucinating and probably need serious mental treatment. Funny how quick the "hallucinations" clear up.
I see soldiers ride on the coat tails of people who had to seriously deal with shit, get zero help, and then claim PTSD. If you aren't being actively treated for it, then you have no fucking excuse to act like anything but an upstanding citizen. PTSD I have even less tolerance for in this category because help is FREE. 250000% free for every single soldier ever. No excuses, at all. Having treated people with PTSD, worked with them, and been family to them, there is something instinctual about seeing someone faking the funk and surfing the waves of support people give.
PTSD claims are particularly assholeish ones because civilians will never understand military concepts. And there is this almost awful vibe of "if you don't support the troops you're pretty much Hitler" in America to boot. Reality is: most soldiers are young assholes that needed discipline for one reason or another. Some never mature. Most gain bad habits while they're in. You can support the troops as a whole while still thinking THAT boot is an asshole. But someone cries PTSD and civilians get all lovey-dovey and suuuuper supportive because that's what they want to do--support people with PTSD and issues they can't comprehend. So then civilians get burned out quicker because they're giving this sympathy to people who don't need it while instinctively thinking they don't need it but not being able to call them out on their shit because they don't have the proper credentials to technically 'know'. They have to wait for a fellow soldier to be like, "No, Fuck you, cut this shit out you wuss and quit being a leech on the fucking system." Meanwhile, people with PTSD see all of this and are scared to even mention it.
A good sign that someone doesn't have PTSD: they keep claiming they do immediately after something stupid they've done. Most people with PTSD do not want to talk about it, or let other people know there's something wrong with them. They want to feel normal.
I know a dude in our running group that pulls this shit sometimes. He'll get sloshed, act a fool, and then get angry that people think he's a fool, act out, and then blame the whole thing on PTSD. No. You don't have PTSD. Or maybe you do, but PTSD isn't a "get out of acting civil free" card. It just isn't. If you're so fucked up you're throwing punches at people for PTSD related reasons, then I'm calling the cops because you're hallucinating and probably need serious mental treatment. Funny how quick the "hallucinations" clear up.
I see soldiers ride on the coat tails of people who had to seriously deal with shit, get zero help, and then claim PTSD. If you aren't being actively treated for it, then you have no fucking excuse to act like anything but an upstanding citizen. PTSD I have even less tolerance for in this category because help is FREE. 250000% free for every single soldier ever. No excuses, at all. Having treated people with PTSD, worked with them, and been family to them, there is something instinctual about seeing someone faking the funk and surfing the waves of support people give.
PTSD claims are particularly assholeish ones because civilians will never understand military concepts. And there is this almost awful vibe of "if you don't support the troops you're pretty much Hitler" in America to boot. Reality is: most soldiers are young assholes that needed discipline for one reason or another. Some never mature. Most gain bad habits while they're in. You can support the troops as a whole while still thinking THAT boot is an asshole. But someone cries PTSD and civilians get all lovey-dovey and suuuuper supportive because that's what they want to do--support people with PTSD and issues they can't comprehend. So then civilians get burned out quicker because they're giving this sympathy to people who don't need it while instinctively thinking they don't need it but not being able to call them out on their shit because they don't have the proper credentials to technically 'know'. They have to wait for a fellow soldier to be like, "No, Fuck you, cut this shit out you wuss and quit being a leech on the fucking system." Meanwhile, people with PTSD see all of this and are scared to even mention it.
A good sign that someone doesn't have PTSD: they keep claiming they do immediately after something stupid they've done. Most people with PTSD do not want to talk about it, or let other people know there's something wrong with them. They want to feel normal.