“It wasn’t an official diagnosis until 1980, when Post Traumatic Stress Disorder made its debut in psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”

This is a factual claim made by the author. This is giving the time and definition of PTSD. It is seen throughout the article that PTSD is seen differently; however it always is defined the same way. Due to the definition of PTSD and the signs and symptoms of it not changing, it is a fact which makes this a factual claim. 

“If they make an appointment at the VA and can’t get in for several weeks, how do they eat, they want to know, in the meantime.”

This is an ethical claim because it talks about how vets will try to make an appointment at the VA but not be able to get in for weeks. This is one of the main issues in America, which causes many vets to become homeless due to not being able to get jobs once they get out because of PTSD they have or not having any family left to fall back on. This is a combination of both emotions and ethical reasoning to support this claim. 

“When you’ve become hypervigilant, the place you are most functional is on the battlefield,” McGill’s Brunet explains. Caleb, despite his injuries and his admission that war was pretty excruciatingly awful, told me he wishes he could go back. Kateri, despite wishing her system hadn’t learned to run at a heightened state, at this point is like a drug addict, needing stimulation to maintain it. For the first time since Iraq, her husband felt at peace, and was able to enjoy a steak dinner with his wife. “He just sat there,” Kateri says. His normalcy “was so distressing to me that I wanted to stab him.”

This is an attributive claim because the author uses what others have said to him to help prove his claims and support his ideas. 

She used to ask Caleb what was wrong, why he was coiled so tight and poisonous, screaming and yelling at everybody.

This is an example of an analogy and categorical claim because it explains how he was affected by PTSD, and the effects include him yelling at everyone and being unable to control his emotions.