Post Traumatic Stress (PTS)

[Brianwarnock]

I rather like the warning label on the iron-on t-shirt decorations I bought recently. They were very specific that one should not attempt to iron them on the shirt while one is wearing it.

Really?

But how can you get them in exactly the right spot if you don't?

Brian

 

[Rabbie]

The smoke got in my eyes.

Brian

Isn't that a cue for a song?

 

[Vassago]

But how can you get them in exactly the right spot if you don't?

Brian

That was my logic!

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I only personally knew of two people who went through enough of war to have PTSD. One was a woman who was a survivor of one of the death camps. She was liberated before it was her turn for the Zyklon-B. The other was my (late) father-in-law who went ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day, 3rd wave. His unit went north-east and eventually liberated more than one death camp. Until his dying day about 10 years ago, he never opened up about it any more than to get a far-away look and talk about how disgusted he was that people could treat other people in such a horrible way. Both of these people had dealt with their stress to the point of being functional in society again, but neither one ever lost that haunted look.