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I would say for people that are in Mortuary Affairs
or even any non-combat related MOS, PTSD still happens.
It doesn't have to be just combat related and you can see
that you end up with the same symptoms.
They might be different in some ways and that's OK.
Treatment, it helped me.
I don't know that it's necessarily for everybody.
I think some people come back OK, whether combat or not,
but for people that are having issues,
it doesn't matter whether it's combat related or not.
There's still a lot of traumas, when you're picking
up the bodies of your friends
that you might have seen several hours before or comrades
that you know are in the exact same position.
Or you're going out into that hot area
that you know this guy just got killed here, when you're picking
up civilians or kids or things like that.
Yeah, they're gonna have some effect.
PTSD is more of unprocessed information, unprocessed things
that you haven't had the time to fully sift through
and you don't want to because it's painful.
And so you lock it somewhere in the back of your head,
and that doesn't have to be combat related.
That can be a lot of different experiences.
Unfortunately a lot of that happens in war
and it doesn't have to be shots fired.