Missileer
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LeEnfield 2 said:The problem with PTSD is it may affect you while you are in the Forces and at times it can emerge from the place that you had hidden it many, many years later. The problem is that not every can recognise it, so some people try drown out these memories by hitting the bottle.
I was watching a History Channel special and it was being narrated by veterans of a WWII battle, I forget which one, but one of the vets said "we were all having nightmares and waking up screaming and in a cold sweat. We had PTSD and didn't know it for 40 years."Poor guys, suffering for that long but back then, you had to put up a barrier to block it out because they had families to support. This sometimes resulted in alcoholism and even suicides.