Leopold Leopold I love this comment. I have similar feelings and experiences and its devastating to think how many countries/generations have had to deal with these issues.And even more sad that wars are still going on and damaging future generations aswell. Oh humanity😢

Leopold Leopold Save your whining for a therapist's office, you're bullshitting half of it for sympathy anyway.

And you are nothing but an unfeeling troll with nothing better to do than make unwarranted comments about other people you know nothing about. Take your crap and shove it up your own arse!

Leopold Leopold I have it too. So I watch this interviews to help and sooth my conscience and understanding on what is PTSD and its devastating effercts on those who have it, such as myself.

My mother too has bipolar disorder. As a result, I chose to study psychology in order to better understand human behavior. It definitely impacted each individual in our family and our whole family unit. I also live with chronic anxiety due to things being out of my control.

@sneksnekitsasnek , it's possible that their families didn't have the money to pay for their mental health therapy. And publicly-traded corporations make a lot of money from "treating" but never solving people's problems. This is why we need Medicare For All that includes mental health. And medical and mental health should be in the hands of non-profits. Also when a person's mental health is bad enough, the rest of the family can't live with the person. The person would seriously physically or psychologically injure other family members. Third, 1980 was 40 years ago. A lot of research tools (fMRI, MRI, CT, etc.) had just been invented or were still to be invented. So, mental health therapists didn't know then what they know now.

I'm sadly going through a similar situation with my dad, his problem was (is) alcohol dependency brought about very likely from a rough upbringing, he was an only child and his dad raised him in very old fashioned manner, ie lots of physical disciplining and raised aggressive voices, and from that he never learnt how to have a functioning relationship with his wife and his two kids, me and my bro, he's never learnt to open up because he was taught that men don't express their emotions and have to keep "strong". Sad thing is compared to the case of Patrick's father where he couldn't easily get the help for shell shock as you could today, my dad refuses to admit he has a problem and refuses help, thus he's now essentially living in conditions akin to a crackhouse as he doesn't clean, his health is in tatters from the drink and the lack of proper cooking/diet. Despite all the crap he put us through I really want him to get help but you can only gently nudge someone so much before they push back.

@@shepja87 I'm sorry about your father. I hope that you are getting the help you need. Sometimes you have to lead by example.

Yes, what Stewart's dad did to his wife was horrible, but unfortunately, the truth is never as simple as we want it to be. Often it's not, "he did something bad because he was just a bad person".

Well, in that case, he _was_ a horrible person. If you are going to say "it doesn't excuse what he did", then you have to accept that as a corollary, otherwise you _are_ excusing it.

Catherine Jenson,,, Millennials have not suffered In comparison.. lol to even think that.. pretty Funny

For those who call the shots aren't among the dead or lame, And on each end of the rifle we are all the same. Old men declare war, the young pay for it. There is nothing amusing or romantic about war.

@@Pinkielover I am assuming you are responding to a comment that has been deleted?

@sneksnekitsasnek We keep making the same mistake: focusing on justifying on who _doesn't_ suffer, when we all do in some way.

But why are we still doing it? Why do we (the US) have over 500 F-35 at ~$77 million EACH, but will not take care of veterans mental health?

@@joejoelesh1197 Believe it or not... you can blame the Republicans. It was Ronald Reagan that repealed President Carter's Mental Health Systems Act. Reagan essentially deinstitutionalized mentally ill patients at the federal level, leaving it in the hands of the states. In Reagan's defense, he was just trying to lower the national debt. His policies stimulated economic growth, cut inflation and pulled America out of a recession. Most likely, when he repealed the MHSA, he was just listening to bad advice.

My Grandfather went with us to the theater...he walked out crying just before the end of the film. He later told me the only story about the war he ever told me.

I didn’t know my grandad long before he passed, but he never spoke about his experience in WWII, and I can recall my dad very explicitly telling me never to ask him about it... All I know, from my dad, is that he was a message courier who frequently went behind enemy lines to deliver messages. He received two Purple Hearts, and I was told that he was so scared during his runs that he often couldn’t even remember what happened. One time a bullet came so close to hitting him that it grazed the side of his helmet and actually left a crease!

Exactly and we as a species created the horrors of war and no one should be forced to endure that experience

@@jamiehoward5538 Women did not create this system males and Patriarchy did. It is inhumane and cannot last. It literally is a death culture that celebrates violence, greed domination and destruction.

@@KaliMaaaaa "Women did not create this system males and Patriarchy did." That is a tremendously sexistic view. You have no way of knowing if this started with males only. No way of knowing if this started from a father telling this to his sons and brothers or if it was the mother that did. You have know way of knowing and yet you set it squarely on males. This is to complex of an issue for you to set it squarely on one demographic and make it sound as if females are inoccent just for being female. I am not here to say that tons of females have not been stripped of their humanity by cruel monsters in male forms. I am not here to say that the injustice between the sexes ahave never happened or are still do happening. But do not say trash like this as if you are all knowing and know that females had no part in this bad thinking. Do not blame it all on males when there is no way of knowing if that is true. We will never come to any peace with the blame game you are playing. This behavior is a human fault, not male. It is human failure that created this injustice and not males failure. By saying that it is males fault ignores the fact females are as likely to do so if given the same power the men took. It ignores the fact that females can be cruel monsters aswell. Problems like this is mankinds fault and not just one half of the worlds population. This is not a problem of sexes but of human thinking. So stop with this blame game as it only leads to ignorance.

Glenn, such an insightful, compassionate and brilliant comment. I thank you so very much.

Glenn, so true. Patriarchy hurts everyone, men included.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) - neural degeneration caused by repeated head injuries - neurological and psychological changes as a consequence of physical trauma (rather than psychological trauma, as is the case with PTSD).

This makes a LOT of sense. That shell shock has a sonic / physical / brain damage component... alongside the possibility of true psychological trauma from PTSD

@@KarmasAbutch A related problem is helmet design - the current helmet designs used by most ground troops acts as a funnel feeding pressure waves to the brains of the wearer's. They are optimised for falling debris protection not to protect against pressure waves. Pilots and motorcycle helmets do a better job of this as they are designed for sound attenuation as opposed to most military helmet designs that are designed for the exact opposite.

Was he always anxious?

@@CasualApostate Yes.

surferpam1 it’s amazing how much that particular generation had to internalize trauma without being completely ruined.

Auspicious Autonomous Especially when people don't know wtf they're doing or are penny pinching politicians who won't listen to the veterans and instead listen to lawyers ;)

Medical research and experiments have discovered ecstasy has the ability to cure PTSD.

wow ...my grandfather was born in 1896 as well .had a stunt in the ( great war ) ... never saw him as he passed way before i was roaming this earth . but i could see the effects of war on my own Father . up to his last days . war is evil my friend .

Maybe brain damage from a bomb falling too near. IDK.

Yeah, I wonder how much Patrick's experience with his dad informed his acting in "Family" and First Contact and in Picard when he came to the Borg Cube

So much so that you can't even write out his entire name. Wow!

TL: 1. The video is misleading. ECT was not invented until the 1930's. The scene shown is clearly NOT from WWI. 2. ECT is not some joke, or a treatment casually prescribed. It IS a proven treatment wich has helped thousands of people with severe mental illness that does not respond to other treatments. Grow up and respect the professionals.

@sneksnekitsasnek Well, no. Pills are not just 'handed out" with no idea whether they work or have side effects. Pharma companies spend tens of millions of dollars developing and testing each new medicine. Nonetheless there will always be some side effects that turn up when hundreds of millions of doses are used over years. Don't exaggerate.

@sneksnekitsasnek Well with a BS in Biology, worked in healthcare, answering consumer questions on a website and 40 years experience, I think I have a pretty good understanding.

@sneksnekitsasnek Yes, biased with knowledge and experience.

Drug addiction is considered an illness.

Drug addiction IS a mental disorder. Look it up in the DSM or ICD. As for the latter, blame the liberal establishment for normalizing sexual deviances.