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Originally Posted by Robert Delk
I can't imagine how anyone could fake out the system they have in place to check you out. I didn't even say anything about ptsd but went in for type 2 diabetes as they think it might be a result of Agent orange. I went to 3 different medical facilities in 3 different cities and it was 6 months before I found out they had decided most of my trouble was PTSD.They checked my medical and psychiatric records,which I was not aware they did, and came up with my evaluation.I can see now that I was "losing it" but my behavior seemed ok at the time,to me only.Anyone that would fake something like this deserves to be given serious prison time. On the up side of ptsd I found that you can stay awake for days at a time and not get tired but the auditory hallucinations were the worst.
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Those sound like serious symptoms to me! Hope you are okay...
Another tale. Old squadron mate of mine joined a motorcycle club, all enlisted marines. He was the only officer. All of the men were receiving PTSD payments, each and every one. They told the fellow I knew that he should put in for PTSD too. He figured, hay, it's free money. I was in the Nam (he was an F-4 driver.) So he put in for it. Big mistake. He convinced the medical people that he was infected with the problem, so they gave him some drugs. If you don't have PTSD and you take the drugs for it, you get it. Then the cops took his guns (very nice shotguns), and pilots license.
So, it sounds to me that if one fakes it, it is problematic. But still the two guys who I talked to didn't seem to have experienced anything out of the ordinary, but then again; I'm not them.
Fighting men and women have been suffering from tramma due to military experiences forever. Civil War vets did, so did WWI GI's. Survivors of the death camps did not do well after their release. First it was shell shock, then battle fatigue and now post trammatic stress. If someone has it, it is nothing to be ashamed of. Those who fake it should be jailed. I think some, if not many, do, or try to.
Read an article of an interview of a vet who had seen hard combat. He said, "Yeah, I had issues when I returned, but the first thing you have to do is to stay away from the people who are telling you that you are sick."
You, are much more experienced in this matter than I. I was a zoomie and never experienced the bush. You did. I hope that you are doing well.