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Post-traumatic stress soars in U.S. troops
By David Morgan
Post-traumatic stress soars in U.S. troops - Yahoo! News (broken link)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan surged 46.4 percent in 2007.
Although, these PTSD stories are coming out often, they are different.
Post-traumatic stress soars in U.S. troops
By David Morgan
Post-traumatic stress soars in U.S. troops - Yahoo! News (broken link)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly diagnosed cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan surged 46.4 percent in 2007.
Although, these PTSD stories are coming out often, they are different.
Here's a story for why the number of PTSD vets are low. //www.city-data.com/forum/polit...-diagnose.html The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is holding back on calling disability veterans PTSD disabled.
One report has said there are now near 400,000 disabled combat stress-related vets.
They've just put some serious services expansion here.
Has anyone made any suggestions what civilians can do to help this situation out? I've already encouraged military pen pal since this all began, and volunteered at the VA for the PT dept a few years ago.
Civilians can help by making the veterans feel welcome and supporting them with jobs and economic security instead of dumping traumatized people on our soulless business economy. Putting our money where our mouth is would be a start.
Civilians can help by making the veterans feel welcome and supporting them with jobs and economic security instead of dumping traumatized people on our soulless business economy. Putting our money where our mouth is would be a start.
Civilians can help by making the veterans feel welcome and supporting them with jobs and economic security instead of dumping traumatized people on our soulless business economy. Putting our money where our mouth is would be a start.
Trying to ease the STIGMA of PTSD is a biggie too! These men and women need help now. The suicide rate will climb if these kids don't get reached...
Army suicides reported up again — at 108 - Yahoo! News (broken link)
Civilians can help by making the veterans feel welcome and supporting them with jobs and economic security instead of dumping traumatized people on our soulless business economy. Putting our money where our mouth is would be a start.
There is a great deal of discrimination against PTSD disabled vets, especially by our federal government. A report recently said that there may be 300,000 new PTSD vets.
I am going to P off a lot of people with this, but I haven't met a retired vet yet without some percentage of disability. It appears to be a deliberate goal to become classified as disabled for the increased pay. There, I've said it. Flame away. I know there are many genuine cases; I'm not talking about them, God bless them all. BTW I was in Vietnam and both Gulf wars.
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