This actually isn't true. PTSD is one of the few psychiatric disorders that we actually have very good empirically based treatments for. Exposure therapies for PTSD are extremely successful. Please don't buy someone saying that there is not treatment. There are very good treatments for PTSD, there are just not enough mental health professionals to provide the treatment at the rates that are needed for the large number of vets coming back. And what is worse is when people are sent back over before they can get treatment, and then resort to drug/alcohol use to self medicate and then are sectioned out. They can then not get any benefits from the VA and can not get treatment for their disorders that are caused by their trauma from their time in the military.

There are worse outcomes for people not getting treatment. It is worse to not get treatment than to let it go on.