Children of veterans with PTSD describe the stress of stepping up at home | 60 Minutes

This is why I say the any person who has served in our military should be able to see any doctor anywhere at anytime. Let’s give free healthcare to the who have served!

My father was on the Baatan Death March and spent WWII in an internment camp in Manchuria. I spent more than forty years trying my best to care for him. It personally devasted me in a way I can never recover from--the daily screaming, the threats of violence, etc. I can only hope I grew a more loving heart from the weight of it all. It truly destroyed my life.

"You saved his life." "I helped out, yeah." No hint of seeking recognition for it, he probably doesn't think he did anything out of the ordinary, just what anyone should do.

one of my veteran patients told me about this segment yesterday. so heartbreaking that our veterans sacrifice so much and neither they nor their families get adequate help.

PTSD just gets passed down unless it's greatly controlled. My dad was a Vietnam Veteran who suffered from PTSD (flashbacks back then). He suffered from alcoholism and became extremely violent and abusive when he drank. He drank all the time, trying to drown his pain. That abuse affected all four of us children and my mother. It's not fair for yhe children to have to suffer, yet it happens. It is sad and something needs to be done. I pray for all who suffer from PTSD. I pray they get the healing and management they desperately need. 🙏 ❤

The wounds you can see get treated. It is the wounds you can not see that can go on forever. Please be kind and understanding!

I am a child of an injured veteran of the Korean War. My father was paralyzed freward. months, learned to rewalk. I know what it is like to live with someone living with PTSD.

Our veterans need our support and love

God Bless all the spouses and children of Veterans. 🙏🙏

I sincerely wish peace to those families.

My father was a wwII vet...childhood was extremely stressful. I understand how much the family takes on. My therapist was the first person to ever tell me thank you for your service...she said families serve and sacrifice too.

This segment brought tears to my eyes.

That's why we need to stop fighting. War doesn't solve anything

My sister asked me to temporarily care for her three children because her suicide thoughts and nightmares had come back. She tried to voluntarily check in at a hospital for mental health care, but was denied because she was out of state (we live in different states). They would only admit her with a suicide attempt. Why do vets have to go to that extent to get help? She stayed with me for three months as her husband worked back home. We found a volunteer therapist who was willing to council her for free, and she registered for yoga classes. She was only able to get a VA appointment after about 5 months. It's so sad. This illness doesn't just hurt immediate families, but extended families as well.

How about 60 Minutes doing a segment about all the Military Dependents diagnosed with serious learning and behavioral disorders while growing up in military housing contaminated with Black-Mold, Mildew, PCBs, Asbestoses, and Lead-Base Paints and how the DOD has turned a blind eye to the whole mess for over seventy-years.

Fabulous program! I'm an Army mom & kid. I am a forensic mental health counselor who wants to work with veterans and first responders. It's so important

I agree with you on that my husband is a Vietnam veteran and as PTSD is not 🚫 funis sad 😢😢😢😢

Grew up an Army brat, dad did 28 years total, WWII, Korea and VNM. I'm also acquired ptsd as a result of military service. Difference between my father's ghost's and nighttime visitors and mine is, counseling for ptsd, 38 years of recovery, involvement in a 12-step program and being retired from and continued to be active in Veteran's related issues. My children all had to go through some things because of my behavior and speech, but thank goodness, nothing close to what I experienced and observed with my father and his rage, usually drunken and misplaced.

I don’t think this documentary did a good job explaining the experience children of Military parents endure. The constant moving, not fitting in, angry parents who can’t be reasoned with, the unnecessary standards, absent parents both physically and mentally etc..

I'm the child of a WWII veteran who had undiagnosed PTSD. Growing up was a constant attempt to keep Daddy from getting upset while listening to him regularly verbally abuse my Mother and older brother. Greatest generation???