Susan: >I hope there are no combat Vietnam Vets on this list, because they would be >insulted by the above untrue statements. >PTSD is a NORMAL reaction to abnormal stimuli. In other words the veteran >saw TOO MUCH (horror overload) and reacts accordingly. I'm not quite getting you here. Wasn't Peter's point that TOO MUCH is something of a cumulative thing which includes a person's whole history, especially early traumas as we are then the most defenseless. I don't see how anything he mentioned was in any way insulting. >Because the Veterans >organizations have been infaltrated by Vietnam Vet wannabees the true >picture of PTSD has been clouded by misinformation. Many of the REMFs or >rear echelon mutha fuckas who saw no action also cloud the issue with >statements like ''Vietnam didn't affect me" so everyone else must have had >crummy childhoods. One would think that how much "action" one has seen is clear factor in PTSD, but why wouldn't one's childhood be a factor as well? It sure seems to be in nearly every other arena of life. Cheers, Kirt