BYĀ JESSICA FORMOSO
Some military veterans can’t get treatment for PTSD because their condition was diagnosed only after they were out of the service. Now some lawmakers want to change that with new legislation.Ā In 2005, U.S. Army soldier Kristofer Goldsmith was deployed to Iraq.
“My day-to-day job was photo documentation of graves, of mass graves,” he said. “Sometimes it would be one or two dead bodies on the side of the road sometimes it would be much more than that.”
Goldsmith said he was a stellar soldier when he was in a uniform but when he got home and took it off he was doing nothing but hurting himself. He turned to alcohol and started to have panic attacks, which lead to him attempting suicide.
“When I woke up from my suicide attempt while I was ion Fort Stewart, Georgia, suddenly I was treated like a criminal,” he said. “In just a few weeks I was kicked out of the military. I received a general discharge, which cost me my post-9/11 G.I. Bill benefits.”
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