I think most responses address the issue of PTSD ... and I'm left wondering if the question was meant to imply that PTSD is not real.
If that's the implication then I'm hoping that the questioner will find that it is real - that it applies to first responders to terrible accidents as well as soldiers. The 911 Responders suffer as well. So do many cops and firemen.
And it has affected soldiers who never saw battle at all - because the training exercises to "get soldiers ready" for battle exposed them to massive brain trauma.
If anyone believes this is a diagnosis made up by some particular group - think again.
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