PTSD Claims – pineapple 488

Posted on October 6, 2024 by pineapple488
  • “So tonight, six years after Caleb’s service ended, Brannan is cautiously optimistic but ready for anything on Lasagna Night.” This claim is factual as well as numerical because it can be proven that Caleb’s service ended six years ago. The end of the claim is evaluative because it involves a judgment of Brannan’s feelings.
  • “Early in the morning, she talked to their dog, Shilo, about it while she browned meat for Caleb’s favorite dish.” This claim is factual because it can be proven that she talked to the dog while browning meat. 
  • “’Daddy will be really happy,’ she told the German shepherd sitting on her kitchen floor.” This is an evaluative claim because she is making a judgment about how her father will feel. 
  • “Of course, he’s too cranky to be happy about anything, and he’ll be mad because Katie won’t eat it because I spent all day makin’ it and the only thing she wants to eat right now is pancakes.” This is an evaluative claim because she is once again making a judgment about her father’s feelings.
  • “Later, she reminds me that Lasagna Night can come apart in an instant, if Caleb has a ‘bad PTSD moment.’” This is a causal claim because she is claiming that the failure of their Lasagna Night would be caused by Caleb’s PTSD. 
  • “These are supposed to be her easy months, she sighs, April and May and June, before the anniversaries of his worst firefights—many of them in Ramadi; a lot of bad things happened in Ramadi—exacerbate his flashbacks and nightmares.” This is an evaluative claim as well as a factual claim because she is making a judgment about what she considers “easy months,” and it can be proven that Caleb’s firefights in Ramadi happened after the month of June.
  • “That’s usually September through January, the ‘really bad’ months, whereas in the spring, she gets a bit of ‘vacation,’ time to clean up the house and catch up on work, rest.” This is a comparative claim because the fall and winter months are described as bad and are being compared to the spring which is considered easier. 
  • “It’s April at the moment.” This is a factual claim because it can be easily proven. 
  • “But: ‘He’s processin’ somethin’ right now.’” This is an illustrative claim because it is illustrating Caleb’s current mental state and invoking sympathy. 
  • “She used to ask Caleb what was wrong, why he was coiled so tight and poisonous, screaming and yelling at everybody. That just agitated him more.” This is a causal claim because she is attributing the cause of his agitation to her asking him what was wrong. 
  • “Now, she lets it go, until eventually, after a couple of days or weeks of refusing to leave the house, or refusing to stay home and just disappearing outside, he comes to her. ‘Haven’t you noticed I’m having a bad time?’ he’ll ask.” This is an evaluative claim because a judgment is being made about Caleb’s behavior and feelings. 
  • “And then she’ll just sit and listen while he says he cannot get it out of his head, about how if he had caught that fucking sniper, that enemy sniper he’d been trying to get, that’d been following them around, terrorizing their unit, if he’d have managed to kill him like he was supposed to, then the sniper wouldn’t have gotten off the shot that killed his buddy.” This is an illustrative claim because he is describing the situation in a way that evokes sympathy. It could also be a credibility claim because it was his first hand experience of the event.
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