"It happened at my daughter's wedding. This guy kept shoving me. Finally I asked him, 'Do I know you? Have I done something to hurt you or your family?' He said, 'No,' and shoved me again. I had had enough. So I banged his head on the table where unfortunately the candle set his hair on fire."

He then goes on to talk about being unable to accept that ten of his men were listed on the Vietnam Memorial, and that seeing PTSD therapists allowed him to go on with life.

Am I the only one having trouble connecting the wedding story to PTSD? You're being followed and repeatedly shoved. You attempted to calm and comprehend the situation and instead were shoved again. In my book you had every right to protect yourself through physical means. How is that PTSD?

Thank you.

I have been meaning to post about this for weeks in the Commercials That Make Me Want to Kill thread but never got around to it.

Whoever wrote that is very bad at their job. It's worse that some of the mawkish stories I hear on NPR. They might as well have said "After leaving the orphanage at which I volunteer, I stopped at the pharmacy to pick up a prescription for my ailing grandmother, from whom I am the sole caregiver. I had just enough time to run in before I stopped at home to have my usual dinner of bread crusts and belly button lint before starting my shift at the teddy bear, candy, and puppy dog store. While patiently waiting in line, this man started shoving me..."

Why does the guy come up to the father of the bride, out of the blue, and start shoving him?
Who, when getting repeatedly shoved by a stranger, says "Have I done something to hurt you or your family?"
If that were to happen, physically defending yourself is not at all unreasonable and not indicative of PTSD.

already googled this like two months ago trying to figure out what this was all about.

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