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When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country.

— Max Martini

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

— Jane Leavy

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

— Dito Montiel

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

— Barbara Lee

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

— Lysette Anthony

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

— David Chase

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

— John Olver

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

— Michael Hastings

The struggle these veterans face receiving adequate care for PTSD and depression is a tragedy that needs to be addressed, which is why I cosponsored the Clay Hunt SAV Act.

— John Delaney

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

— Lara Logan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

— Hugh Mackay