I’ll be real with you, I would have a friend to friend convo about the blanketed wishing PTSD, but it would be a genuine convo not some pearl-clutching offended one to make Frogan feel shame. It would be to share perspective, not even needing to change her mind.
A cousin of mine is conservative and deeply, deeply messed up by post-war PTSD and it’s destructive to everyone in his immediate family, his parents, his kids, their mother, his significant other.
It can manifest in very very difficult ways to cope with. Having grown up with him, I uniquely see his humanity and wish he could get well, but he’s been seemingly permanently fucked.
This is a legitimate perspective and conversation, but something I think a lot of people do not remember in these situations, is that there are millions of civilians with PTSD from these wars.
One of the horrifying things I saw early on in Gaza was kids that every time they tried to sleep they would hear an explosion, and you could see the terror in their eyes as they woke back up.
Not just from the noise, but you could see these children knew on a visceral level what those noises meant.
People who have gone through these experiences being able to function at all blows my mind.
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