ApolloBollo

I wish you so much good luck today and will be sending positive vibes and prayers your way.

What was the wish you chose to be granted? As awesome as you hoped it would be?

Keep your head held high - you are a beautiful person inside and out.

I was asking my Dr. (Psychologist) BFF last night about my Uncle (you'll see my prior post to you) last night and he had told me that there was a chance the "Schizophrenia" in my Uncle would not have developed had it not been for the stress of war. He made a big point though in saying that war did NOT cause mental illness, it just "let it out" so to speak.

Stress can't cause the brain to "break" and cause that deep of a Psychosis, but it can cause the brain to "break" and cause the PTSD or the stress experienced by so many Veterans.

My father remembers my Uncle, before leaving, as being the sweetest boy - just kind and funny and MENSA brilliant. When he returned he was a drug addicted young 20-something who experienced explosive bouts of anger/aggression/violence. He would disappear for months sometimes and then return begging for forgiveness. The amount of time he spent in Mental Hospitals is staggering. I have all of these documents (my Grandfather was an INSANE record keeper) showing his treatments and the correspondences between him and the Doctors, Congressmen, "Specialists"...etc.

After one of his episodes he disappeared for months. Three months later he was found dead in a gas station only blocks from my Grandparent's home in Philadelphia. He had been in there for a few months after suffering a type of heart failure - the gas station would close and lock the bathrooms during the winter season, apparently, and nobody found him until the snow cleared that year.

I think it is pretty interesting that I just saw this after spending three hours online last night Googling, "World War II Schizophrenia."

I'm only 29, but had an uncle that died in 1969 after a 20+ year battle with "schizophrenia" that only showed itself during/after his tour in WWII. The military got him addicted to narcotics during the war as a way to help his stress and nerves -- he enlisted as a 16/17 year old.

My Grandfather was a guy that made stuff happen and was able to help pass a bill that prevented my father from being deployed to Vietnam based on my Uncle's disability.

I don't think he had Schizophrenia but was a drug addict and experiencing a tremendous amount of PTSD - all of which went untreated by the VA. Their "treatment" involved numerous instances of shock therapy and an attempt at lobotomizing him.

I find it to be pretty amazing that after all of that research I did last night (your article being one of my main sources), you appear here =)

Thank you SO much for this -- it helped a lot in confirming many of my suspicions about what was done to him during his years after the war.

I think it is pretty interesting that I just saw this after spending three hours online last night Googling, "World War II Schizophrenia."

I'm only 29, but had an uncle that died in 1969 after a 20+ year battle with "schizophrenia" that only showed itself during/after his tour in WWII. The military got him addicted to narcotics during the war as a way to help his stress and nerves -- he enlisted as a 16/17 year old.

My Grandfather was a guy that made stuff happen and was able to help pass a bill that prevented my father from being deployed to Vietnam based on my Uncle's disability.

I don't think he had Schizophrenia but was a drug addict and experiencing a tremendous amount of PTSD - all of which went untreated by the VA. Their "treatment" involved numerous instances of shock therapy and an attempt at lobotomizing him.

I find it to be pretty amazing that after all of that research I did last night (your article being one of my main sources), you appear here =)

Thank you SO much for this -- it helped a lot in confirming many of my suspicions about what was done to him during his years after the war.