You have no idea as to whether or not he's addicted.

It wasn't advil. He may have PTSD, in which case alcoholism, violent behavior and opioid abuse go with the territory.

Some non-narcotic OTC pain medications can increase the effects of alcohol, causing someone to become more drunk than he would normally be.

And guns are not going to be a solution here....

Its a miracle that this didn't end worse....

is often behind this kind of behavior. Sadly, it's a tough illness.

Which it sounds like he has been doing for most of his adult life....

I can't stand Sarah Palin and everything she stands for, but as a parent and somebody who understands how painful it is dealing with a family member who suffers from bi-polar, its a horrible and stressful situation I wouldn't wish on anyone.

And in this situation as described, it sounds like they have all been dealing with (and hiding) the seriousness of the situation with Track.

He likely was suffering from it before joining the military and then going to Iraq and the events he experienced there, only brought on PTSD and other conditions that made the situation worse.

Too many of our veterans and soldiers are suffering and then come home and the war never stops for them...and if they had a mental illness or mood disorder to begin with, it only gets worse....

Honestly, now that Sarah Palin is a negligible presence in politics and no threat to the nation, I have nothing but pity for what her family is going through. Track was in Iraq. It fucked him up. Even his mom admitted that.

War and domestic violence are not things I can find humor in.

Iirc he enlisted after he already had criminal charges against him.

It's no less tragic than McCain's illness.

It's no less tragic than McCain's illness.

The only person who blames his issues on Iraq is his known to be a liar mother Sarah Palin.

Former long-term POW McCain has a terminal disease about to take his life.

One year (supposedly) in Iraq Track Palin can still turn things around. I see zero similarity between him and McCain.

I get that some might find some sick satisfaction in it, and that's your prerogative. Have fun with that.

different situations.

She is nails on a chalkboard to me, but who among us would wish this on our worst enemy? This must be heartbreaking.
Hope he gets the help he needs (and maybe it will create an epiphany).

Has anyone ever actually said he has PTSD?

but maybe we could give him the benefit of the doubt, huh?

Whether they have spent time in the service or not. I don't see anything here that jumps out and says PTSD instead of plain old violent drunkenness.

feel free to cast the wrath of your judgement on him then...Just realize not everyone is up for that. Merry Christmas and all that.

I'm just saying there's no good reason to jump to the conclusion that he has PTSD, and explaining why. There's no "wrath" in my posts at all.

It was certainly judgemental...You say there's "no good reason" to assume he has PTSD, but then there's "no good reason" to assign it to anything else either...I did suggest that "give the benefit of the doubt" thing, but I understand that those who already despise the family are disinclined to be that generous.

What do we know? He was drunk and he was violent, just like thousands of other people who get drunk and violent every single day, with no PTSD necessary. This is a common thing, and it's not "scornful" or "judgmental" to say so. The only reason it's news is because his family is famous. If it was the son of the ordinary guy a few doors down from you, it might get a few lines in the local paper, if there isn't much else to write about this week. That's because it happens all the time.

Sorry, but you seem to care a lot more about this topic than I do. :

Good luck with the wrath and scorn.

He has some severe mental problems and is probably an addict and as the mother of someone who's been sober for almost 7 years now, I hope to God they get the help they need as a family.

This isn't exactly a unique situation. The only reason it made the news is because the family are famous.

I mean, that ugly reality is upsetting just about everyone I know. Could be Track's problem. Either that or just a wicked bad case of republican family values

The Palins are out-of-control people who have been enriched and overindulged by fools and haters. Track called the arresting officers “peasants.” What’s the rehab protocol for entitlement on steroids?

If it were anyone else they'd have been burred the news in the local section of the paper. I wish I could say what I really felt about these people, but I think I would be hit with a flame thrower.

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I wish him well.

who came from a good home with two parents who loved him and cared for him and he turned out like this makes me have some sympathy for what they are dealing with. My sister has not slept through the night for over 4 years. He is an adult so there is little they can do but try and keep him alive as best they can. They have mortgaged their house to get him out of jail when he was nuts and got angry with someone, plus the three tries at rehab. I would not wish this on my worst enemy, not even Sara.

In this case, it's not called "medication" it is called drug abuse. The Palins have been opiate abusers for a long time and to mix them with alcohol is suicidal.

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have no business stating that as a fact.

other media reports over the last ten years. No, I have no constraint on forming an opinion on a deliberately very public family.

Take your Palin apologist tripe elsewhere.

Tip of the iceberg:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037211/Sarah-Palin-took-cocaine-affairs-Glen-Rice-husbands-business-partner.html

and not a euphemism...

"Palin apologist" my ass.. Some of us just have the brains and sense of fairness to avoid the mindless bashing of everyone in a family because of "the sins of the mother" -- You may take THAT elsewhere.

"Problems" are what losers have. Sure, it may look to all the world that Track has a problem. Maybe several problems. But he's been raised from birth to think that problems are what other people have. Losers. Weaklings. Acknowledging that he has a problem would mark him as a loser and a weakling. So he wants out. Somebody shoot me, please, because facing my problems would mean that I'm no better than the people I've spent my life sneering at.

So this rattletrap shitshow goes rumbling, stumbling on, because nobody can admit that there's a problem. Nobody got killed this time, but next time? And there will be a next time.

There’s clearly an enormous problem there and he is not in a family that’s good at handling and supporting crises or pain. No matter what, he didn’t ask to be in this spotlight and he clearly desperately needs help. I hope he gets it, because he’s a danger to himself and others.

Fuck that entitled piece of shit. Fuck him and his whole rotten family.

He's a sociopath who should never have been allowed to enlist instead of doing time. He belongs in prison before he kills someone. He will, one day. There's no helping people like that.

No compassion here. I save it for people who aren't giant wastes of oxygen, like that entire family.