... To diagnose Major Hasan with some variation of PTSD is a travesty. There may well be some Psychiatrist willing to testify in Major Hasan's court martial that there exists some heretofore hidden variant of PTSD that can befall those who merely hear about actual trauma or observe and treat the victims of such trauma, or may someday see trauma close up; there are people willing to lend their credentials to all kinds of nonsense these days. I would like to state quite unequivocally, from the vantage point of a Board Certified Psychiatrist with more than 30 years of experience, and having treated hundreds of people who have been traumatized and have had all sorts of reactions to their trauma ranging from mild psychosomatic symptooms to full blown PTSD to overt psychosis, there is no such thing as PTSD by osmosis or by proxy or via time inversion (where one develops Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder.) The single most salient feature of Major Hasan's case is that he took whatever psychopathology he had (and I believe he had a fair amount, none of it dispositive) and subsumed it into subservience (submission) to Allah whereupon he took it upon himself to perform his religious duty and murder infidels who he believed were part of an army attacking his people. Everything else is BS.
Read it here. Something tells me that a Texas jury ain't gonna buy any PTSD (whether it's "pre" or "post") defense.
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The validity of calling what happened at Ft Hood PTSD is a good thing to question.
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It's important that those who really have PTSD find a way to deal with it, and there needs to be a larger discussion of what can be done.
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