After the Vietnam War, many veterans developed PTSD. After four decades 11 percent of these veterans still suffer from PTSD and it's symptoms. According to Dr. Charles Marmar, a psychiatrist from New York University, who had worked on the original case claims if patients who suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder didn't start improving and healing within a few months or years they never recovered. Strangely, along with the eleven percent of those still living and still suffering Vietnam Veterans more are redeveloping and developing the mental illness with retirement. A man named Sam Luna retired in 2004, after the war he adjusted quickly and settled back into the normal life and it's routines. Sam got married, held a sturdy job and had children. It took him over forty years to start having heavier side affects from PTSD. Once he had reached retirement he started to have more time to think about what had happened to him and his friends all those years ago. After a visit to a Veteran hospital he started having anxiety attacks and looked back at the strong temper he developed over the years his wife always complained about. His wife said he never spoke about the war, he had came out at the age of twenty two and when he was angry he would lash out and punch walls. When he was working he would brush it off and working everyday would create a distraction. After a little while he realized he really needed help and was diagnosed with PTSD, forty years later! IN 2006, over 400,00 0 Vietnam War vets were still or began treatment for PTSD in Veteran Hospitals.
We should thank our veterans everyday for fighting for us and show them they aren't alone and support them if they are receiving treatment. I believe it is very important to see if your family members are showing symptoms, from the Vietnam war or even those returning from Afghanistan in more recent years so they can get the treatment they deserve.
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