Post Traumatic Stress is an Order of Conscience that can save humanity.wmv

I can tell the story of a war in which I lost my brother...‎
in front of me, before my eyes.. they shot him, with a Kalashnikov.‎

‎.. a massacre a cave on our way, in which we saw 60 corpses with our own eyes

We were very frightened but we did not have any choice. ‎
What could we have done?‎

I remember how people were unjustly beaten up, ‎
how arms were dismembered, ‎
how eyes were gouged out‎

Sometimes, I dont know how to feel & I wonder who & where I am. ‎
The memories of war affect me very negatively.‎

What do you request of those who are harsh, the war-mongers, ‎
those who have become habitually violent?‎
I request them not to murder anyone ; ‎
come live in a humane society, to stop these cruel and inhumane acts.‎

Faiz Ahmad, you and I, or any human being who has witnessed these dismembering and eye-gouging horrors of ‎war, cannot be the same again.‎

As a medical practitioner, Im certain that we would all qualify as sufferers of post-traumatic stress, according to ‎the DSM Criteria and not just for the one month period required for diagnosis.‎

If we didnt suffer such stresses on our conscience, we would be the disordered ones, unlike the war veterans ‎who respond humanely with a pain they carry for the rest of their lives some of whom eventually take their own ‎lives in hope of a kinder world beyond.‎
The United States Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki noted that of the more than 30,000 suicides each year ‎in America, about 20 percent are committed by veterans. Why do we know so much about suicides but still know ‎so little about how to prevent them?" Shinseki said. "Simple question, but we continue to be challenged."‎
Post-traumatic stress should be cared for optimally and with love, because it is an order of our conscience that ‎can save humanity.‎

It tells us that we should prevent such in-humane experiences by the eradication of war.‎

Those who have witnessed others killed with the maximal violence humans can muster, should not have to ‎suffer alone. They do not deserve the derision of those who erroneously consider them weak and as having a ‎dis-order.‎

Our cold, clinical medical intelligence will never match their saving conscience.‎

It reminds me that as we cope with the harsh Afghan winter cold in a medieval system of poor heating, it is the ‎difficult elements of nature that point us to the salvation of community warmth.‎

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[Sporkmater]

No it is not, it is something that affects people to the point that some have taken their own lives.

To see PTSD as something that is helpful is insulting as best.

[ourjourneytosmile]

If we didnt suffer such stresses on our conscience, WE would be the disordered ones, unlike the war ‎veterans who respond humanely with a pain they carry for the rest of their lives, some of whom eventually ‎take to suicide in hope of a kinder world beyond.‎Post-traumatic stress should be cared for optimally and with love, because it is an order of our conscience ‎that can save humanity.‎

It puts an onus on us to prevent such in-humane experiences by the eradication of war.‎

[Massaricossudo]

The US soldiers are fighting their conscious in Iraq. And they call PTSD.

[Sporkmater]

Look I understand that being in war make your outlook on it change, but you have to understand that PTSD is a very sensitive topic and I disagree wit the idea. Having that there was a very good chance that we lost a person to PTSD in December of 2008. Also I worked with a few people with PTSD to give you a understand why I am upset.

I understand the train of thought on where your going with this but the conclusion is way off track.

[dancewater2]

ourjourneytosmile: I believe that you are correct and we must work for a world where problems are solved with non-violence.