A friend of a friend was in an MRAP that hit a mine on Route Irish outside of Baghdad. No injuries, nothing. Started having serious emotional problems that were ascribed to PTSD, so they gave him a fistful of xanax to take on a daily basis and a desk job (still in country) and he was still having issues. Got rotated home, VA kept sending him for "talking therapy" and more and more and stronger and stronger antidepressants until finally he went to a civilian hospital and got the full MRI the VA insisted he didn't need and found out lo and behold his pineal gland had gotten detached. It was still there and still connected but it had been pushed around and damaged while nothing else in his skull had been. Left him prone to fits of rage, impotent...just a fucking mess.
So...that's how. Just another mm or so of movement would've left him dead.
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09-22-2012, 08:46 PM
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