Newfie wrote:Can not view film.
Did read Sebastion Jungers book Tribes.
Sounds like it touches on a similar subject.
It is the story of a young marine I knew. He was a scout searching out mines and IED's for his company. Did three tours in Afghanistan. He married his gf right before his first deployment and his daughter was born while he was overseas. The stress each time he rotated home was worse and on his third tour his wife of two and a half years divorced him. He left the service at the end of his third tour but the pressures of the combat reflexes in civilian life were massive. After his daughter was around five he grew fearful he would hurt her or his new fiancé and took his own life. The VA system was nearly useless they just pushed anti-depressants that created wild mood swings. His military buddies started an annual fund raiser to help others with PTSD but of his closest friends who survived combat one of the others also killed himself a year or so later. I met them all briefly and it is hard to understand how isolated they feel in civilian life where 99.9% of those around them can not grasp the way the war changed them emotionally, seeing the horrors up close never knowing if the person you were talking to over their was a jihadi just trying to get close enough to kill you or lead you into a trap. Then going home and talking to civilians who spout off all kinds of random stuff some of which disparaged them or their fellow service men and women who were sent by politicians safe in D.C. Trigger words were a psychology term for people with PTSD that was adopted by certain people to mean anything they find offensive.
It is disturbing to me how entitled people misuse the term not having the least clue what it feels like to a real PTSD sufferer to feel overwhelming rage and the need to lash out or flee when triggered as the instinctive fight or flight response is set in motion. It is not the urge to slap an idiot or burst into tears, it is the urge to remove a threat by violence or flight. Conflating PTSD with hurt feelings is disgusting on the visceral level.
Posted: Wed 25 May 2022, 16:37:21