Combat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Options

[fameONE]

Should those who suffer from combat PTSD be recognized as casualties? How legitimate is mental illness in comparison to a physical injury? With this, should it be appropriate for a man/woman with PTSD to receive a purple heart?

[sixfive]

I didn't mean to label them as weak. Perhaps it would have sounded less mean if I had said "What about the people who are stronger, not that others are weak, that aren't effected the same way and aren't impacted on a daily basis?"

[mipadi]

I didn't mean to label them as weak. Perhaps it would have sounded less mean if I had said "What about the people who are stronger, not that others are weak, that aren't effected the same way and aren't impacted on a daily basis?"

If you say one group of people is stronger, then you logically imply that the other group is weaker, since the terms are relative anyway (i.e., "weak" and "strong" aren't absolutes).

Is this to say we shouldn't bother offering medical treatment to people who get sick with diseases like pneumonia or hepatitis or the common cold, on the grounds that their immune systems are simply "weak" and a "stronger" person could simply get over the diseases on his own?