U.S. diplomats returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder (soldier, state)

[JoeP]

WASHINGTON — U.S. diplomats are returning from Iraq with the same debilitating, stress-related symptoms that have afflicted many U.S. troops, prompting the State Department to order a mental health survey of 1,400 employees who have completed assignments there

USATODAY.com

[GregW]

When you are frightened long enough and severely enough then PTSD is to be expected. The helpless feeling of being hunted all day long every day really changes a person. You do not have to be a soldier to be threatened or to be screwed up by fear.