Comments on: PTSD: The Child of a Combat Veteran http://www.veteranjournal.com/ptsd-the-child-of-a-combat-veteran/ Veteran Journal Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:36:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Douglas Rohde http://www.veteranjournal.com/ptsd-the-child-of-a-combat-veteran/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Douglas Rohde Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:55:02 +0000 http://www.veteranjournal.com/?p=103#comment-1210 I work as a manager in a law firm that specializes in VA claims and most of our cases surround PTSD. I can't tell you how many times I have spoken with children of Veterans who suffer from PTSD. I hear a lot of these people discuss the difficulty of maintaining a consistent relationships with their fathers due to the illness. It's tough. I work as a manager in a law firm that specializes in VA claims and most of our cases surround PTSD. I can’t tell you how many times I have spoken with children of Veterans who suffer from PTSD. I hear a lot of these people discuss the difficulty of maintaining a consistent relationships with their fathers due to the illness. It’s tough.

]]> By: cledrarlysosy http://www.veteranjournal.com/ptsd-the-child-of-a-combat-veteran/comment-page-1/#comment-673 cledrarlysosy Sat, 22 May 2010 12:17:14 +0000 http://www.veteranjournal.com/?p=103#comment-673 Just want to say what a great blog you got here! I've been around for quite a lot of time, but finally decided to show my appreciation of your work! Thumbs up, and keep it going! Cheers Christian Just want to say what a great blog you got here!
I’ve been around for quite a lot of time, but finally decided to show my appreciation of your work!

Thumbs up, and keep it going!

Cheers
Christian

]]> By: Kathleen http://www.veteranjournal.com/ptsd-the-child-of-a-combat-veteran/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Kathleen Mon, 17 May 2010 04:04:17 +0000 http://www.veteranjournal.com/?p=103#comment-632 My father was disabled in a non-combat accident while in the military and I completely relate to your post and the added comments. My father was disabled in a non-combat accident while in the military and I completely relate to your post and the added comments.

]]> By: Deborah http://www.veteranjournal.com/ptsd-the-child-of-a-combat-veteran/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Deborah Wed, 27 May 2009 14:44:48 +0000 http://www.veteranjournal.com/?p=103#comment-293 Incredible, our lives could be parallels except for the fact that my Vietnam Vet husband suicided after a serious trigger set off his PTSD....and my father, the WWII vet, had died just months before. As the baby, I apparently caught the better years as my father, already into another successful legal career, tried to "change" his reactions and I benefited from it, a source of never ending sibling resentments. My baby, and my two children that my husband brought into the marriage, and I suffered immensely. Carol, My father, too, was a heavily decorated veteran who parachuted behind enemy lines and lived and worked with the French underground as a member of the OSS. He was as successful in his post-war, civilian career and is still remembered 26 yrs after his death, as much for his success as for his notoriety. When he'd get irritated, he was never afraid to let anyone know it and he had a formidable command of the English language. He did manage, or should I say my mother managed, to keep the marriage together, but in retrospect, I simply don't know how. The VA offered no help to either, not that my father would have taken it, but my husband did make a couple attempts to get help and the VA....well, that is worthy of a short book. Suffice to say that they obviously had no intention of fulfilling their mission before my vet's death or after. And they wonder what erodes a nation from within... Incredible, our lives could be parallels except for the fact that my Vietnam Vet husband suicided after a serious trigger set off his PTSD….and my father, the WWII vet, had died just months before.

As the baby, I apparently caught the better years as my father, already into another successful legal career, tried to “change” his reactions and I benefited from it, a source of never ending sibling resentments.

My baby, and my two children that my husband brought into the marriage, and I suffered immensely.

Carol,
My father, too, was a heavily decorated veteran who parachuted behind enemy lines and lived and worked with the French underground as a member of the OSS. He was as successful in his post-war, civilian career and is still remembered 26 yrs after his death, as much for his success as for his notoriety. When he’d get irritated, he was never afraid to let anyone know it and he had a formidable command of the English language.

He did manage, or should I say my mother managed, to keep the marriage together, but in retrospect, I simply don’t know how.

The VA offered no help to either, not that my father would have taken it, but my husband did make a couple attempts to get help and the VA….well, that is worthy of a short book. Suffice to say that they obviously had no intention of fulfilling their mission before my vet’s death or after.

And they wonder what erodes a nation from within…

]]> By: Carol http://www.veteranjournal.com/ptsd-the-child-of-a-combat-veteran/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Carol Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:13:46 +0000 http://www.veteranjournal.com/?p=103#comment-233 How true! I am the daughter of a decorated WWII paratrooper who was portrayed in the war film The Longest Day and also written about in a number of WWII history books. However, no author was interested in his post war life - his alcoholism, 3 marriages, and the persistence of combat trauma. PTSD was not a psychological diagnosis back them and there was no attention paid to the vet even if he attempted to get help from the VA. How true! I am the daughter of a decorated WWII paratrooper who was portrayed in the war film The Longest Day and also written about in a number of WWII history books. However, no author was interested in his post war life – his alcoholism, 3 marriages, and the persistence of combat trauma. PTSD was not a psychological diagnosis back them and there was no attention paid to the vet even if he attempted to get help from the VA.

]]> By: Tim http://www.veteranjournal.com/ptsd-the-child-of-a-combat-veteran/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Tim Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:08:43 +0000 http://www.veteranjournal.com/?p=103#comment-215 Thank you for your honest sharing. Thank you for your honest sharing.

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