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  1. Just an observation from an Army brat — you are absolutely right. Something needs to happen to TRULY make it okay for soldiers to get help. My family needed tons of help and I think there were times when at least one of my parents realized it, but did nothing. I could feel the fear coming off of them in those situations. My father was all about the career. He wasn’t willing to ‘risk’ it — but let me tell you, that man needed help in a big-time serious way. Instead of geting help, he tormented his children. There also seemed to be more than the normal amount of silence about child abuse among the ranks. Reporting something was putting a fellow soldier’s career on the line. It’s too bad that the DOD seems to want perfection from soldiers. We are all just human. I don’t think there is anything wrong with having ‘human’ soldiers.

  2. This is a problem on both sides of the Atlantic.
    As a therapist in the UK, working in a doctors surgery i get referred anyone who has stress or whatever.
    If they happen to be in the armed forces, police,firefighters,ambulance service, they have all without question being scared of their employers finding out and stigmatising them.

    We are all human , we can only take so much in stressful situations, whatever our profession. But if you are on the front line of trauma then you likely to loose it quicker.

    Is it a sexist thing, big boys don’t cry stuff.

    So then I end up counselling their partners and these guys end up having therapy by proxy cause their partners can’t take any more of their behaviour. Mainly cause the women are getting beaten up emotionally and physically.

    It is not good enough.

    CBT is not the answer, it’s just you an get many more people through your doors and give them all a quick fix. People are going to need proper therapy to help them deal with the PTSD, which is going totake resources and time. The therapists are here waiting…. THEY just need to admit that they have got it wrong and start caring properly for the men and women whose lives are on the line

    Both of our countries are going to have many more Vets unable to deal with normal life than after Veitnam.

    When will THEY listen. It all as continued echoes of General Haig in the WWI. Who never thought what he was doing was wrong when he sent all those men over the top and the carnage of the Somme and Ypres then transpired.

    Thank you for your post ,I feel so passionately about this that it has been really good to find it and let off steam.