When did shaming those with PTSD become acceptable?

I'd like to catch someone shaming a fellow Veteran about PTSD and then we'll see about Totally Acceptable getting your ass handed to you. We have 22 Veterans a day committing suicide. This is for real. We all have our own demons to fight we don't need our comrades in arms adding to the mix. Out...

Never acceptable.

Oftentimes the people slamming veterans with PTSD have no real knowledge of what they are saying. These military personnel who claim PTSD have been diagnosed by qualified medical personnel and are deserving of their ratings.

People with ptsd should never be shamed

I can't help but agree. I too read that article and I have PTSD. I felt doubt and shame and questioned my mental stability. I was shot 3 times (body armor stopped 2, 1 thru my right hand). In my civilian life I was in multiple raids as a tactical medic for SWAT and a FF/Medic. Life and death was in my hands constantly and some choices still haunt me. I don't know why that article bothered me so much, maybe it made me feel like "stolen valor". I have come to terms with my PTSD disability and no long confused or shamed but I wonder how many like me with PTSD, hasn't come to terms with it after reading that article.

***UPDATE***
I responded to the Veteran that I thought was being unfairly critiqued by an RP member. It turns out he was responding about a soldier of his possibly faking PTSD. The individual in question did not apply to these comments towards the RP Veteran but to all Veterans in general. Again, its not about getting anyone in trouble or being touchy feely, its about standing up for Vets that are claiming PTSD.

This post and many like it bring the following quote to my mind each time "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

There are in my opinion and personal observation, many fraudulent cases of VA disability ..PTSD, TBI, Sleep apnea, non specific back injury/pain..ect.. Many were very vocal in telling me how I too could work a scam and get paid "big bucks"
That said I look at it as i do that quote..
We can not look down our nose or assume fraud, deny claims based on a small percentage of fraud.. To deny even one troubled vet because others before have tried to fake a claim would be wrong.
Out the fakers as they can be seen in the light of truth,,, but never assume another is a fraud because of a unrelated fake claim.

if combat doesn't change you have a problem making some one feel bad about the hell they live with u need a trip out back of the woodshed!

The question shouldn't be when did it become acceptable, it ought to be when will it become Unacceptable to shame those with PTSD (or any other mental issue - such as clinical depression).

Are there some who game the system? Absolutely. Like any system (those soldiers who have the physical profiles where a coma might still be in violation of some aspect, and breathing must be limited to 12 breaths a minute or less). Yeah, those folks are a real gas to have to be around. However, every faker is vastly outnumbered by those who have legit issues. And shaming, belittling, degrading and berating isn't helping the individual, or the unit, or helping to accomplish the mission.

The military is great at training us how to destroy stuff, and they do a pretty damn good job at figuring out how to fix or, at the least, minimize the physical damage that can be incurred by violence and chaos. But the psychic wounds that may occur; the mental aftermath of witnessing all of that. Not so much. Granted treatment-wise, diagnosis-wise, we are starting to get it, and improve. The stigma, however, that surrounds these types of things has not lost any ground, and is only reinforced by those who purposefully fail to understand that they are actually worsening the situation for all concerned by conducting themselves through their behavior.

Folks, PTSD is real! For the ones of you who question the invisible wound. Put on your boots, and leave your way of life behind, while the rest of them sleep peacefully at night. Stand the post and see what war can be like once you have experienced it, and it stays with you.