Military Ptsd Essay

PTSD is not a pleasant experience for any man, woman or child to experience, it causes them to fear doing some of the most basic functions a person should do. Riding a bus can be terrifying to a man who survived a car crash. Being in a relationship can be horrifying to a woman who has been subject to rape. It can even cause a child to completely shutdown from reality for fear of just not knowing how to deal with these nightmares caused by abusive “guardians”. Its deadly to the sane mind, it causes people to not be able to forget memories that they would most certainly never want to experience ever again. But the strange thing about PTSD is that it isn’t consistent, for example, the man we spoke about earlier, the car crash victim, lets say that there was another man driving, and where as the man who was driving was injured, the man who wasn’t driving and wasn’t injured, yet the driver didn’t acquire PTSD. Common sense would dictate that the driver would be affected with PTSD, but for some reason wasn’t. This is the strange thing about it
in general, but there is one more strange feature to this affliction, men who are given PTSD through military ventures, whether they were in combat or not, can still acquire PTSD, not only this, but unlike the civilian PTSD, these men and woman who get War PTSD often wont let themselves forget these memories for fear of dishonoring the memories of their fallen comrades. There is a poetic irony to this, the ones who survived are still carrying their memories on their shoulders to attempt to carry on the memory of the fallen.

But even accepting all of this evidence for the case of military PTSD to be more frightening, This writers opinion still rests with the men women and children that didn’t choose to take the chance, and didn’t know the dangers going in.
The largest difference between military PTSD and Civilian PTSD is the fact that civilian’s don’t, and never would, choose to participate in there experience. When entering the military, they make it very clear that the danger is omnipresent, you are in a land that wants you dead, and you have to live everyday knowing that your next day might not come to live in. This is by no means a way to discredit the soldiers as weaker, the fact they can look death In the face and even have a chance to return to normal is a testament to this, but what is being said that they choose to try, no car crash surviver, no rape victim, no abused child has aver asked to participate in there PTSD, it was thrust upon
them