Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has affected many current and returning service men and veterans leading to substance abuse and dependency occasionally leading to death. PTSD is that the mental disorder causes no physical damage nor changes to the structure of the body, but still effects the mind and does have a physiological signature and can be detected in brain scans that show changes to the brain’s structures and wiring, which has been altered because of traumatic experience and should be classified as a wound. The regulation for the Purple Heart never makes any distinction between internal wounds or external wounds and those suffering from PTSD should be awarded the Purple Heart.
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