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.
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: "
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
person who gets trauma and quickly overcomes it in an episode after just thinking about it for a bit or talking to someone
person who goes nuts and starts killing everyone and being a general asshole
person is just an asshole
person who is literally PTSD as a character and nothing else (lmao shut the fuck up tasha yarr)
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: "
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