You are correct in what you say, no doubt, being that in those days people ignored the very things that society today see and recognise as real issues, commone issues, and not simply a person thats crazy or the like. At age 10 though, its not your responsibility to get yourself into counselling, its the adults around you, noticing something has changed, your different, something is wrong, hence to counsel and find out, whether it initially be with someone you trust in order to get the story of what happened, to help you remember, because amnesia doesn't work that way where you have just totally forgotten, but more you simply can't find the answers at that time, hence why most amnesia are temporary, and come back as the mind wants to reveal the answers, as the answers are still stored in the mind, they didn't go anywhere, its only the minds ability to block or unblock the paths to that information. Swelling in the brain is one method amnesia is common, another is trauma (once again temporary) as the mind chooses to displace the information, not forget it. As you well know though by now, the mind is more powerful than we give it credit, and this misplaced information still feeds negativity into our brain, hence we react differently, hence we still end up with PTSD even if temporary amnesia is at play. Rude... but on the mark.

But you are right when talking about our decades Lisa, but what we did is not a reflection of what should occur, nor is it a reflection of the future. We cannot go back and change our pasts, nor can we change how our parents generation view mental illness... hell, nor even our generation, however; we can shape the futures generations, and that is via adults being responsible enough with children to know if they need to take their kids off to counselling, to get someone the child trust even to find the issue if good enough to do so, but the child must not carry the trauma for decades and end up like us. We can change the future of PTSD if we want, but it must be done now. Ignoring it and saying people must choose to get counselled is not necessarily the correct reflection to obtain the future goal, especially when your talking about children and teenagers. None of them want counselling, so why would anyone ask them, instead if your the responsible adult, you would ensure they get what is in their best interest if in doubt. It is like saying we would not protect a child from something hot, instead just let them burn themselves first to learn.... not how it works. Its too late after a child has burnt themselves, and when assumptions are made that the child will only burn themselves a little, nothing bad, is when the child falls under panic, and ends up dead from majority body burns or the like. This is an example... same end result. We must protect and do what is right for those that surround us, even if they don't believe its the right thing to do, as adults and especially those who have suffered trauma and know the end repercussions, forced counselling is likely the only way we will decrease the issue, especially military on return from operations.... it would surely be cheaper to put all soldiers into private counselling sessions, or hire more counsellors for the purpose and intent to ensure all soldiers are counselled weekly for one year after deployment, minimum 3 months, or where the counsellor feels the soldier has been honest and opened up completely about their trauma.

We can prevent, but we cannot prevent if the option is left solely to those who DO NOT know any better, or DO NOT know the consequences of their actions, nor the full extent. You cannot understand PTSD unless you have it, however; do you want the to get it or do you want them to avoid it?

Just my opinion....