So, the other day, I'm watching CNN, minding my own business and Cindy McCain comes on. And then, I heard one of the most horrible thing that I have ever heard. Now, we've all heard some nasty things in this election, I try to ignore most of the insults and nasty things said because hey, that's politics, right? But, as a soldier, I could not help but tune into what Cindy McCain said: In a nutshell, she said that PTSD just didn't exist, that it was the soldier's own fault because they just needed to push past it. And the only thing that was going through my mind at that moment was "What the hell is this woman thinking?" Let me assure you friends, PTSD is very real, I have friends who have. I have friends who are so bad off after coming home that they can't sleep for more than an hour at a time, because they are plagued by nightmares of what they have seen. When they are awake, they drink to forget what they know, most of the times can't even function.
So after getting over my shock, all I could feel was anger. John McCain's son just went to Iraq, and I bet if he comes back with PTSD, all the sudden it would be real.
Folks, sometimes, I just don't know anymore. What has this world come to when instead of trying to treat PTSD, we tell the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that it's all in their head, that they just need to suck it up, drive on?
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