PTSD Reflection

WRITE a blog post in which you reflect on what you've read, both in class on on your own. This reflection is open and prompt-less; it should be about 400 words.

When the soldiers return from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, their families and friends are all escatic of their returning. People think that the families who are missing a son, husband, or father begin to have issues from the lack of a family member for so many years. Actually, the ones who have the issues after the war are the returning soldiers. After so many years of constantly watching their backs, soldiers begin to be paranoid of constant enemies trying to kill them. The soldiers who have been traumatized from witnessing a devastating incident, such as military warfare, suffer from PTSD, or Post traumatic stress disorder.
For me, it is very sad that the soldiers who volunteer to serve for their country suffer from more than physical pain and trauma, they also have to endure through mental distress. Some people with PTSD refuse to get help from physcologists and their families and they want to deal with all of their issues by themselves. But instead of turning to people who are willing to help them, they turn to drugs and alcohol to temporarily sedate their mental problems and issues. Besides the obvious of them hurting their own bodies, they hurt and sometimes kill other innocent people. I never knew that people who have PTSD become violent and may hurt others without thinking. In many cases, actually, veterans who have PTSD have killed other innocent human beings because they were either intoxicated or high on different types of drugs. They also hurt their own family who loves them because when they see that someone they love is turning into a terrible person and they refuse to take their help, it could inflict depression and sadness within the family.
From the soldier's point of view, they are just innocent people who have been traumatized from witnessing their friends die by gruesome and devastating ways. To "get away" from their problems of losses and injuries, they may take drugs to escape their problems. There is no other way to escape the problems because they cannot literally run away from the war. Once they make a dedication to the army or other armed forces, they have to fulfill their duty to the end. They all have different reasons for enlisting themselves into the army, but they also ruin their own lives and their future. If they are lucky to survive the actual battle and they don't have any physical injuries, then a majority of them may have been mentally scarred. Soldiers who go to the war are of risk of mental and physical damage from the battle and witnessing the horrors of war. It is important to give the veterans credit for enduring through the dangers of the war and to help them as much as possible for the safety of themselves and other innocent people.