shadow355
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Welcome to the club Shadow. I retired after 22 years of it. A shocking statistics of retired Cops eat their own guns but trauma is a part of the job and we retire and learn to live with it without whining and begging for a psychological related medical disability or beating our wives and shooting our friends. Civilians don't get to use PTSD as a defense in a felony. Read the freaking federal PTSD guidelines. Veterans of the greatest Military in the world can cite PTSD if they were afraid of being attacked sometime during a year or two of being in harms way without even hearing a shot fired in anger. The radical left found a way to diminish the image of the greatest fighting force on the planet without bombing recruitment centers or spitting on Soldiers and PTSD was made to orderPTSD certainly does not just effect Combat Veterans. Raped men or women, surviving a horrific accident, witnessing a person getting shot etc. It wasstinger, I know a little bit about it.....
Though my father would never admit it, he suffered from at least minor effects of PTSD related to his time in Vietnam. Most of my family never noticed them, as they were rare and relatively minor, but he did have them.
My wife deals with severe PTSD issues related to things that happened to her as a teenager (not military related), so I have some idea of what many of these veterans are going through.
unfortunate it took so long to be identified. Some times it described as a sane reaction to the insanity of war or any horrific event.
Here is a link that tells the History of PTSD.
War - PTSD National Center for PTSD
You have good incite into PTSD.
Im in Public Safety.
I've been on two hangings - gunshot wounds - pediatric cardiac arrest - pediatric respiratory arrest - decapitation - fatal car wrecks - gun shot victims - and countless other bad calls.
Trauma and stress plays hard on the body and mind.
Shadow 355
What you can do and not do ..... Or claim in court varies from state to state.
PTSD and some other medical problems are diagnosed by the proper medical professionals, with the help of the DSM.
DSM definition - Medical Dictionary: Definitions of Popular Terms Defined on MedicineNet
Defense of a person accused in a court of law is the responsibility of an attorney.
Shadow 355