Level Black - PTSD and the War at Home

I was wounded in Vietnam 47 years ago and lost both my legs. I can assure you that the PTSD will fade away as you age. It did for me and back in my time they still weren't sure what PTSD was or how to treat it. I was never treated for it and had some rough times wat back when. Ended up in jail a couple of times for disorderly conduct. I was told I would never be able to have children too. I married one of the nurses that took care of me and we have been together 41 years. Have two children a son and daughter. Our son is a veteran of your war and an ER doctor today and his sister is a high school teacher. Get rid of all the pills and live for your family and in due time ( a long time ) the PTSD will no longer haunt you if you just get involved with you wife and kids. God bless

Not one of my friends that went to Iraq came back. Either they came back in a box, or their body came back without them in it anymore. The soul that left did not come back with their body. One even took his own life to in order to keep his family safe. He felt he was a mortal threat to his wife and daughter. As a father his most important life mission was to keep his family safe. If anyone / thing were to be a danger to his family he would have to neutralize that threat. Its just so happens that HE felt that HE was the threat, so he took care of it in the fashion he had been trained to. R.I.P. Next time politicians are telling you that we need to 'protect our freedoms' by INVADING another country thousands of miles away, remember they are lying to you so you will make them very very very rich. They refuse to go to war themselves but dont bat an eye sending you and / or your kids to die.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRAFICE SOLDIER 

i feel so sorry for veterans They do so much good and this is the outcome this makes me sad

I suffer from PTSD although it is only a fraction of what this fighter has. As a father of a six month old baby boy, let me tell all of you that holding my child in my arms and watching him look up at me and my beautiful wife with a smile is at least 50% of the therapy for my problem. It gets better Staff Sgt. It eventually gets better.

I hope you and your family all have a better life now.

PTSD. . . so hard to live with. Only person in my family that hasnt given up is my dad.

Good story. I was taken out in '04, I lost my marriage, home, career. My PTSD and physical injuries are so extensive I filled for disability in '06 (I tried to work but couldn't). I received disability within 1 month after I filled. So that was n is a blessing. Group therapy and one on one help to cope with the symptoms that go along w/ PTSD along w/ some of the meds. I don't take as many as I used too, and I haven't attempted suicide in over two yrs. so there is improvement, very slow over ten yrs. Now I have goals and dreams for a better life.

I volunteer with the Citizens Advice in the UK and I have spoken to a few people with PTSD from various wars. It breaks your heart what these people have to go through, it really does.

My grandpa wakes up screaming and yelling we’re going down. His helicopter was shot down in Vietnam and took shrapnel to the eye and is blind in one

I dropped my phone out of sadness when he said " always wanted a 3rd kid....it was a no go.".... Love you brother. Your a good man.

PTSD is a mysterious thing. Poem titled, “My place has changed." My place has changed, From the things once seen. To where I do not know. Only I can say ‘I can return.’ Only I can find that way To my source in life, With the time I have left I must overcome. It’s I who must come back.

Thank you for posting this deep video.

Thank you for your service and sacrifices that you made.

Thank you for your honesty, your service, your time thabk you

Thank you for your services ❤️

Thank you so much for your service

Thank you for your service and your bravery.  Best wishes on the new baby and may an angel watch over you and your lovely family.  I never walked in a soldier's shoes and I have PTSD living my very sad life.  I try to overcome the past.  Also, I use to read the Bible and to have a hobby.  God bless you, soldier 'n family.  Your smile brightens everyone's day.

Thank you for your service

God bless you...thanks for sharing!