When did shaming those with PTSD become acceptable?

Sp4 Byron Skinner. Since I have PTSD among other brain injuries and am under treatment by a VA MD Psychiatrist and am on medication for combat injuries from 50 years ago I will pass on making judgement on others. As far as acceptance, I doubt if it has ever been accepted by the general public even those that served. the for mass documented literature on this issue is the Soldiers Heart for the Civil War. In WW I it was shell shock and the most documented information if from the British, in WW II it was called Combat Fatigue and George C Scott's performance in the movie Patton says it all. From Vietnam an forward it is PTSD. It took decades for PTSD to become recognized. There are a number of books over the past twenty years that show the struggle and finally having PTSD appearing as a legitimate mental problem in the DSM edition 5. Having PTSD has not in its various forms dating back to the Civil War ever meet public acceptance. All the Veterans who claim it are just after a fat monthly check, they are fakers and slackers, probably new even saw combat

First of all how does one know whether somebody has or does not have PTSD it's not something you can see. Are there soldiers out there who never hit a combat zone and are claiming combat-related PTSD I'm sure there are but PTSD comes in many different forms you don't have to see combat to have PTSD you could have been in a car accident you could have saw somebody get shot. The fastest no one knows by looking at somebody if they have PTSD or not you can't tell by simply looking at them and all forms of PTSD are different for everybody who has them some more severe so my minor son go in between both severe and minor so unless you've actually dealt with it and feel it no you should not shave somebody for having it

Well how does one sdier know if another soldier does or doesnt have PTSD? Claiming Combat related PTSD and you never stepped a foot on foreign soil...well, not ok, but PTSD is not just a combat issue.

It is never acceptable - PTSD is a combat injury and just always be treated as such.

heres the thing we all fought for people to say stupid shit its in the constitution but do I agree with it hell no I have PTSD and have had people say stupid shit what do I do never talk to that idiot again and hope and pray they get into a car accident killing them and there spawn so stupid cant continue in that line. Joking aside I know some old grunts that dont believe in PTSD even now with scientific proof but thats how it goes its fucked up but everyone is entitled to there opinion god damn that hurt saying that no matter how much you hate it we fought for that right so thats how I stand.

The civilian world has not come to terms in trying to understand PTSD. They look at it as a mental problem. This is a serious issue especially with so many veterans committing suicide each and every day. I have PTSD but am getting the help I need now that I wish I had help with when I got of Vietnam. It seems, to me, that people more times then not associate PTSD mostly with Veterans when some in civilian life also suffer. Vietnam veterans were tagged with to many labels and now one more is added.

I think that shamming those with PTSD or Battle Fatigue or Shell Shock or Solders Heart after the Civil War or Nostalgia after the Revolutionary War, has been pretty standard within American society. The real question is how to make it absolutely unacceptable in our society as a whole. Those that haven’t served have no frame of reference except jealousy and contempt for someone with a wound they can’t see. Those that served but haven’t experienced combat don’t have a complete frame of reference either. I guess it is just something that takes time to percolate through society, I hope society in general becomes a bit more excepting, but it will take political leadership that has some respect for the military.

I believe that many have no true idea exactly what PTSD is except what they have heard. With that kind of a mental scar, you cannot be sure whose truthful and whose not.

While I completely agree with allowing everyong their point of view, it is never acceptable to belittle someone on here. Back and forth banter is one thing, but I think we are all here to teach and learn from each other, not knock each other down. If someone, on RP or not, does try to "game" the system, they will eventually will get theirs in the end. Noone likes a thief. But noone here has the means of doing the investigation needed to prove that of anyone here. I feel that you having to even bring this up is well, sad.

It is never alright to shame someone with PTSD. I was a soldier who never deployed though I'm learning it is a common thing for people (mostly civilians) to tell me I must have PTSD if I disagree with anything they say just because I have served my country. Just because I have served does not mean I have PTSD, I just don't agree with what the person may be saying. This sets me off every time.