Comments on: Study Shows Very High Rate of PTSD Among Veterans

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:42:46 +0000

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By: Hua

Hua — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:53:08 +0000

Hi Mike,

I really enjoyed reading this post, you have so much detailed information. I had no idea that over a third of the returning veterans, received a diagnosis of having a mental disorder. I’m Hua, the director of Wellsphere’s HealthBlogger Network, a network of over 2,000 of the best health writers on the web (including doctors, nurses, healthy living professionals, and expert patients). I think your blog would be a great addition to the Network, and I’d like to invite you to learn more about it and apply to join at http://www.wellsphere.com/health-blogger. Once approved by our Chief Medical Officer, your posts will be republished on Wellsphere where they will be available to over 5 million monthly visitors who come to the site looking for health information and support. There’s no cost and no extra work for you! The HealthBlogger page (http://www.wellsphere.com/health-blogger) provides details about participation, but if you have any questions please feel free to email me at hua@wellsphere.com.

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By: Brittany at Mommy Words

Brittany at Mommy Words — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:07:36 +0000

Mike, you have been helping me on my Thesis site, so THANK YOU! My brother has PTSD (along with a host of other problems) after serving 1 tour in Kosovo (then being moved to Afghanistan) 2 tours in Iraq and 1 in North Korea which he did not complete because he was Medivacced to Water Reed. He struggles with life every day and oddly enough, after being medically discharged from the Army, he now wants to go back because he does not know what else to call his family. He was stationed at Fort Benning for the little time he actually spent in the states at all other than some time out west in some training camps and then ranger school.
Yes, I think that veterans should be treated with medical and emotional care for their ENTIRE lives. If anyone deserves the congressional health plan – it is these guys. I believed this before my brother enlisted and even more so now.

Also, I think that we are diagnosing more but also seeing more because of a host of factors, including the two that you mentioned but also – significantly – because the world today does not always have a place for men and women who have served their country and been educated by the armed forces and do not have a degree from a college and so when they get out of a place where they could earn promotions and where they could earn respect and be a part of a community, many find themselves unable to find even the simplest job without that degree. The stress of losing one’s place in the world is immense and because there are not a lot of opportunities for some of these vets, they cannot handle or work through the trauma they have experienced. This is just my 2 cents.
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