Hi! My husband is an OIF vet, Desert Storm vet and has served on the DMZ and Sinai in the Army. He has combat PTSD.

Has your boyfriend tried (or have you ever talked about) therapy programs? There are a lot of successful programs for veterans specifically. The VA can be pretty useless and hard to get an appointment, but you could look outside the VA at private psychiatrists, psychologists so forth. Honestly, it's made a difference for a lot of vets who can access it. New drug protocols, research protocols and established therapies like EMDR are so helpful.

It wouldn't hurt to do some research on those and talk to him. My husband resists help because he feels like he has to be all macho and crap, but I tried to talk to him about it. Never hurts.

Good luck with everything.