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Keith
For example, I still have nightmares (always the same one), I have trouble sleeping, I carry around beaucoup anger (less than I used to)..but do I have PTSD? Can I justify it? My actual combat time was minimal..wasn't my job...tho being in a team consisting of 11 men & living on the economy certainly generated stress big time. So, in my case, I would say I have some symptoms but not full-blown PTSD.
When I was still living in Ohio, I was friends with two psychologists. They had patients from WWII that they were treating. Their opinion was that it was 50-50 for a successful cure. I do not have PTSD. I can talk about Vietnam and dream about without the problems some of other brothers in arms have suffered with.
The comments expressed here are similar to those in Australia. What we did find, based on US data was that the fighting in Vietnam was the trigger for two types of stress disorders. One was that which triggered an inherent personality defect which is immune to counseling or drugs. The other was a genuine stress disorder that was treatable through counseling and does emulate the characteristics of Shell Shock, battle fatigue etc. Nice to know we are on the same wave length.
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