Nightline is doing PTSD among Iraq vets.

[aquart]

Mental health screenings. One on return, another three months later.

Paxil for our soldiers.

[Warpy]

1. That doesn't work

We don't have a good treatment for PTSD beyond talk therapy. Since that's labor intensive, I'm afraid it'll be thrown onto self help groups like it was after Vietnam.

This just kills me. We know what modern war does to soldiers, especially the kind of war they're facing in Iraq. You'd think we'd be damned sure there was no alternative to war before we asked them to risk their mental as well as physical help fighting for us.

Bush is using these guys the way the old Divine Right kings used the peasants: send them out first to absorb what the enemy throws at them so that the more important people (Halliburton employees) won't have to take the brunt of it.

[Ironpost]

2. 34 years later and I think I still suffer from post traumatic syndrome

Sometime's I think the ones who lost their lives are the lucky one's. I probably won't ever recover, but life has to go on. 1300 plus and counting, no telling how many Iraqi's we've destroyed, and I'm not just talking about the one's who are maimed or died, I'm talking about the families, both ours and theirs.

[vetwife]

3. You sound like many vets...Welcome Home ..

[Tsiyu]

4. They will not do enough. They CANNOT do enough

That's why the whole Mental Health Screening for the populace doesn't worry me as much as it should. Remember the smallpox effort? They couldn't even get folks to volunteer to help with immunizations.

This administration couldn't organize a lightbulb change.

If you know someone with PTSD, learn about it, recognize the symptoms and be prepared to offer suggestions on alternative treatments and therapies.

WE have a long road ahead, friends.