Head Injuries and War

Back during the first Golf War, I had written this observation and now...

FINALLY RECOGNIZED AS ACCURATE YEARS LATER

Visible or invisible brain injuries affect different areas of the brain in each individual, yet there is no distinction made even years later when a new correct or incorrect diagnosis is made.

We have specific medical names for different types of digestive, psychological, ethical, political health problems, even cancer. The various names indicate the differences and degrees of each, including even for physically, visible brain injuries.

But, with invisible brain changes, although the titles are different, until recently, all represented the same problem. We have finally begun to recognize acknowledge there are differences between PTSS (POST TRAUMATIC Stress syndrome, and Post Concussion syndrome? Traumatic indicated something happened, but what?
Is there a distinction between TBI and PTSS? (Traumatic Brain Injury and post traumatic stress syndrome?)

Has anyone explained what they specifically refer to or have we accepted them as “psychological causes for invisible symptoms,” fueling the assumptive belief the patient is responsible for the symptom or symptoms, and leaving the patient with the same impression.

Soldiers returning from the First Gulf War were told for years it was their attitude was the cause responsible for their symptoms. This was finally negated by the same federal agency that perpetuated it for more than 20 years. This new approach which had been forced on the federal agency since the latest Iraq War was finally acknowledged by that same agency this interpretation was inaccurate.

The symptoms, almost identical in so many of the returning Iraq War veterans, has finally forced the federal agency to reevaluate that conclusion when it became obvious that it was not logical for more than 22,000 GI’s to have identical reactions to the same symptoms.