For those that have not seen PTSD at first or second hand, then reactions can be as stereotyped as people who say that a person with depression should 'just pull themselves together'. If the state of a person's mind is altered, then they will make decisions that seem strange to some people. I agree that the lawyers are on the gravy train but they too are just trying to make a living and doing so in a way which their society approves of.
My father was in a bad aircraft crash when he was 21. He got pulled out of the buring wreckage and had PTSD all of his life. The problem being that the aircraft was an RAF Mosquito that crashed on take off in 1945 when an engine caught fire - and you don't want to be in a wooden aircraft fully fuelled and gunned up for night fighter operations with an engine fire. So there was no counselling and he just toughed it out. It wasn't nice and these days there would be some sort of compensation.
He died at the age of 78 and had the usual nightmare just the week before he died. That was 55.75 years of PTSD.
For those who have not seen PTSD or Depression or Schizophrenia at first hand, one analogy is this:- a woman is enjoying a normal pregnancy but then has a spontaneous miscarriage and the child dies. No one is to blame, nothing could be done to save the child - it's jut life. Is she angry? Depressed? PTSD? Would she like to sue someone if she could? For these pax, they CAN sue someone - so let them do so. A large part of the price of their ticket for that flight - was made up of insurance.