text: The government should be taking a critical view of how people are being treated by them as an employer: this case is tragic. PTSD is like an internal brain injury (it is a physical response to external forces that gets stuck). It is physical first and foremost, the fight or flight response that dumps chemicals into the system gets stuck and damages organs and fries neural connections. If psychiatrists were better versed in treatment rather than drugs, if employers like the military would accept that it is physical and stop treating people badly when they get this type of injury (i.e. sending them to JPSU, "retraining" while a person is still injured rather than waiting for enough recovery to retrain), if they accepted that it take 2 to 5 years for brain chemicals to balance out again before firing a person, giving them a few dollars and no chance to get any further work because such actions create stigma about mental health issues so the person will never get hired, the person may heal