Iraq Veterans (25%) Cope with PTSD

[Up2Late]

This link is to a RealAudio/Media Player audio file.

This story is very upsetting in that, Army Specialist David Beals, was given his 72 Hour re-deployment orders 3 days after attempting Suicide, as he was leaving the Medical Hospital. He went AWOL, but was captured and was sent back to Iraq, the Army said he would get treatment in Iraq, but so far, has not.

Iraq Veterans Cope with PTSD

by Eric Westervelt

All Things Considered, March 31, 2005 ·

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that one quarter of veterans who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and were treated at VA hospitals in the past 16 months were diagnosed with mental disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder was the most common ailment.

[saigon68]

1. Wait til these people come back and start killing

Only a matter of time now.

[physioex]

2. Damn straight.....

These people are over there murdering and torturing. The freepers think they will comeback and resume "normal life". This is total bullshit and many ticking time bombs are/have been created.....

[applegrove]

4. The soldiers are pretty much doing their jobs. And the whole UN was

in Afghanistan. Remember that there have only been a few instances of murder trials in Iraq. And that one prison in Iraq with the humiliation torture. The people I would worry about most are the staff a Guantanamo or the ones who fly the terrorists around the world looking for a place that will use torture. But I think many of them have been chosen for their common traits with your average monster.

I think the ones who end up with PTSD are the 95% of humans who have feelings to begin with. And the trauma can be taken care of (if Bush does not destroy medical funding for vets).

[physioex]

5. Well you last sentence says it all....

It still worry though that many monsters have been created.

[Up2Late]

6. "...IF Bush does not destroy medical funding for vets...", Too Late!

Check out this story:

<http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050318/NEWS/503180384/1016/FEATURES07>

[applegrove]

9. I cannot check it out - I have to pace myself. Only so much horrors in

a day. The opening line started with "Bush.." and you lost me right there.

[applegrove]

3. They actually have really great drugs these days. Most should be

able to get back a really good life. Not like it used to be.

So there is hope for the PTSD victims.

[saigon68]

7. Not with all the recent VA cuts

They are still coping with thousands of disabled from Viet-Nam..

As far as I know --- its WORSE than it used to be.

No one is ever CURED of PTSD. It goes partially into remission ie COUNSELING AND DRUGS.

[Up2Late]

8. It gets worst

There was a post here, a few weeks ago, on the latest numbers of the DU (Depleted Uranium) victims.

As of this year, 56% of the solders that served in the 1991 "Gulf War" are sick due to DU, and 11,000 have already died from it. If you remember, the toll was around 150 KIA back then. They say they used something like 10 times more DU in this war. :evilfrown:

You should do a search of the Archive, there was a lot of good info in that thread.:hippie:

[saigon68]

11. Thanks

I'll check it out.

[Nostradammit]

10. That's a really transparent glass in your icon

there.

[KitchenWitch]

12. I am surprised it is not a lot higher

[davhill]

13. I wonder how many Iraqi civilians also suffer

from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Perhaps all of them.