Can we talk about how soldiers being the face of PTSD is super fucking harmful to people who don't get their PTSD from trying to kill people for free college?
Yes. It also creates the super harmful idea that you have to be a soldier (or at least a cop) to get "real" PTSD while everywhere else just gets a less deserving version of it. It also makes healthcare systems invest disproportionate amounts into creating specialised PTSD treatments for soldiers, while all other cases are neglected.
I also hate the very popular notion that veterans needs to be handled with kid gloves by the healthcare, unemployment and social services systems.
"They fought for [insert-country]!" Is used to justify them being treated humanely by systems that are otherwise revoltingly underfunded (as is the case of the psychiatric system) or (as is the case of the unemployment and disability bureaucracies) who are deliberately designed to make an example of sick people by treating them like lying criminals and grinding them to a pink paste just for the crime of being sick and unable to work.
Person A deserves a shoulder to cry on, a stable income and the sympathy of the public because he voluntarily choose to go and kill poor villagers in a non-white BadCountry, while being completely aware of the risks to his mental and physical health. But person B deserves to suffer and to be told that she is a lazy moocher and a burden to society because she's the survivor of an abusive relationship. And don't even get me started on what we do to refugees with PTSD.
The soldiers themselves could have used the special status they enjoy in our fascist culture to fight for the rights of everyone with PTSD. But no veteran ever went on TV to shame the ruling elite for not caring for people with PTSD. No, like the little chuds they are, they buy into the whole idea of them being very special boys and only talk about how veterans with PTSD.
love how all the other PTSD representation comes in the following varieties
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person who gets trauma and quickly overcomes it in an episode after just thinking about it for a bit or talking to someone
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person who goes nuts and starts killing everyone and being a general asshole
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person is just an asshole
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person who is literally PTSD as a character and nothing else (lmao shut the fuck up tasha yarr)
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Yeah, my partner has PTSD from being raised in an abusive household and it's always funny because it's a legal disability so when she mentions it on forms or in conversation, people are always like "Thank you for your service :07: "
One of the most disgusting things for me is the indignation of war criminals and their fans over anything that either besmirches their honor or brings them any sort of harm in regards to the wars they've waged. You literally participated in the destruction of another's home, their everything, you left nothing sacred and at the end of it all you got to go home.
But then of course they cry 'but they can't really go home, they take the scars of those battles with them wherever they go!'. Awful people with minds like children.
The people of Asia suffered horrifying ordeals, ordeals so bad I was grateful that at least as bad as it got in Afghanistan and Iraq it still didn't compare, and what a thing to be grateful for; like being grateful for being punched instead of shot, or in this case being grateful for being shot instead of my entire family brutalized and butchered and forced to flee their homes to disgusting nations that participated in the wars and are indignant that their victims should seek safety on their shores, indignant despite not even being the receivers of most of the refugees save for Germany.
We talk anti-imperialism here all the time, but honestly none of us can fathom how horrific any of these wars were. We can read about it, but the horrors were felt hour to hour, hour to day, hour to week, every moment felt because if you were fortunate not to have suffered the violence of war yourself, others in your family most assuredly did, your neighbors and even people living on the outskirts of your town or village whom you didn't know personally but were aware of. The horrors of war brought starvation, brought injustices you had to live with because you were never going to be able to take it to court, brought an end to your country in a way it could only take decades to recover if at all, and in the case of Vietnam lingering death in the form of agent orange and landmines.
Meanwhile the soldiers went home, were able to get proper medical attention if they needed and wanted it, therapy if they could afford it, family who were all in one piece, cities and towns that weren't ravaged by what you helped bring to others, and instead the ability to cry about horrors at your luxury. Your victims were forced to go back to their lives and to try and salvage what's left of the bones and char to have something left, if not for themselves then for their loved ones that still remained.
I'm glad I can't fathom what these people go through, just the hint of it makes me bitter and hurts like hell.
I'm getting a mild panic reaction thinking about all the spiders that probably live in that hole. Hopefully they're the communist spiders from that one SCP
