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If it came down to it I would enlist instead of being drafted. I already want to serve, but I want to do something medical so if I can get a position like that I will be more than willing to go at it. I readily accept the fact that while I could kill someone should I have to I would probably be one of the guys messed up because of it.

I dont think any real in depth analysis has truly been done as to the exact cause of PTSD, but I think its more a result of seeing your own buddies blown to gak rather than as a result of shooting someone that was trying to kill you first...

chaos0xomega wrote:I dont think any real in depth analysis has truly been done as to the exact cause of PTSD, but I think its more a result of seeing your own buddies blown to gak rather than as a result of shooting someone that was trying to kill you first...

Theoretically any kind of traumatic stress can cause PTSD, from killing someone to eating a really awful tasting food. The question isn't really about the source of the traumatic stress itself, that's basically irrelevant, the question is about how the person in question reacts to whatever the trauma may be.

Thats true I suppose. I remember talking to some special forces guys (I mean special forces, not spec ops) that had PTSD, they thought it was the best thing that ever happened to them. They were saying that once they figured out how to control it, they could dial it down when they were at home, but when they were on an op they could dial it up and it was like living in bullet time. To them it was like everything slowed down, their senses were all magnified, and they basically had 360 degree awareness down to the minutest detail.

Theoretically any kind of traumatic stress can cause PTSD, from killing someone to eating a really awful tasting food. The question isn't really about the source of the traumatic stress itself, that's basically irrelevant, the question is about how the person in question reacts to whatever the trauma may be.

Thats a whole new thread topic there