With PTSD or any other mental condition, there is the time from when a person gets that mental condition to the time when it's diagnosed. In that time period, in most cases the person has no idea what's wrong with him or her.
How can we, or how can the medical world, help those people and identify the signs, whether they have PTSD or some other medical condition? There is a time during which people have no idea what's wrong with them. Last week we were at a breakfast with veterans. Two of them who had PTSD gave testimonies. One said very clearly that for a while he had no idea what was wrong with him. He tried to commit suicide. On the second attempt he stopped, and realized there was something wrong with him. That was when he started looking for help.