not exactly a laughing matter

it obviously is or she/he wouldn't of posted here:)

Today, I read fml's and realized they were fake

1) OP is male. 2) It's "have" not "of".

Hey, at least the uncle didn't have a flashback about a Vietnamese prostitute.

hahahahahahaha so true

I have to agree with 6. There isn't anything funny about this.

I'm laughing

try living with someone who has PTSD, it's not funny and you never know when it's coming

so did you atleast give him a handjob I'n cargo shorts

failsauce #89

i think it should still be shellshock was he in Hanoi?

Reminds me of a certain game *cough* Hence *cough* my name.. *cough*

#63 is mighty hot.

Back in Nam... We used to squeeze our buttcheeks and pretend they were boobs

89, What ...?

why is this an FML so what If he has flashbacks. He has been through things you have never seen and done things you have never done and he did it all for you and the rest America.

53, you're a nutter.

my mom is deaf but she is awsome and she always orders at fast food place's but she cant talk

When your job is to gun down villages that have a "suspected" enemy presence from a mounted machine gun on a helicopter, but the village contains innocent men, women, and children who are getting shot up by you, that's not an experience a doctor will be able to make you cope with just fine and dandy. Or at all.

yes there is . the military is now starting to understand PTSD and are trying to help soldiers coming back from wars to help them cope and return back to living as a civilian and helping them and their families understand the emotional stress that the men and women went thru fighting so that the families and children of the soldier can live in peace at home without any tension .

58 just got pwned

58 has a point. Fortunately, the movie Full Metal Jacket was fiction, so the soldier in 58's "Get some" scenario doesn't exist.

I didn't get owned you idiot. He said the military is starting to understand PTSD now, not the military understood how to treat it back in the years of Vietnam. They didn't know how to effectively treat it back then. My description wasn't based on Full Metal Jacket; it's reality, taken from my next door neighbor who's a Vietnam veteran. My uncle, who is also a Vietnam vet, and one of my father's friends who's a 'Nam vet as well confirmed that stories like my neighbor has told me are reality, and situations like that actually happened many times.

they can't help him dumbass he has what they call Vietnam syndrome

Post traumatic stress syndrome.... Dumbass.

Some people can't help that and it may be related to PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder. and, it takes a lot to get through that.

PTSD and post traumatic stress disorder ate the same ******* thing dumbass

She was explaining what PTSD was ******* dumbass...

LOL

adult teeth have gold sometimes

how can you agree with 15 if you are 7!?

I agree with #15!

How ironic, that guy got #15...

I think that was the plan from the start. Lmao.

Idea for a new TV show? Get nutters from different wars and pit them against each other in a cage fight to a soundtrack of machine gun fire.

I lol'd

Win #28

#28 people suffering from PTSD aren't nutters.

exactly! too bad all my respect for you flew out the window when I saw your username.

Hospitals can't do all that much for ribs, can't be bandaged. Hurts to breath, and you let ribs heal naturally.

mobile? or computers at the hospital, I dunno I'm trying.

Tthe hospital probably told him he had a cracked rib but there's not much they can do for it except send you home with pain meds...

haha

how'd you know he's not? fail @ trying to be smart :/

Or maybe it's been several days. I doubt anyone immediately jumps onto FML.

12 year old girl doesn't know what she's talking about.

I agree. not many people on FML are old enough to know that. this is just a bad situation all the way around.

F both their lives. It's true enough that Vietnam vets (all vets), after having served their country, come back to an unwelcoming country that's not well equipped to reintroduce them into regular society. Mental health services are frowned upon, etc. The families they come back to basically have to cope with the PTSD themselves. The VA just doesn't offer enough services to help, and while there are support groups, a lot of vets wont go to them.