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Army, VA seek answers to rising military suicide rate (www.pantagraph.com)
Do you think that God’s going to send me to hell for killing innocent people?” former Sgt. Joshua Barber asked his wife one day last summer. Kelly Barber tried to reassure her distraught husband.... More
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Morale: The Marines Are Right And The Army Is Wrong (www.strategypage.com)
The U.S. Army is under increasing pressure to use six month combat tours, rather than the twelve months ones it has been using for over half a century. This issue came up recently when the army... More
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PTSD Continues To Take Toll After Soldiers Return (news.opb.org)
For thousands of young men and women coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the price exacted by war is obvious. Anyone can see the evidence left by scars, burns and amputated limbs. But other... More
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AWOL Soldier Seeks Sanctuary In Ithaca (www.wtvh.com)
After fighting 15 months in Afghanistan, 22-year-old Trevor Loope of Texas went AWOL from the Army. Stationed at Fort Drum, he left his post one year ago to seek better health care for depression and... More
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Vets' Corner: PTSD diagnostics change for the better (www.saratogian.com)
Interim final rule eliminates the need to develop evidence of occurrence of an in-service stressor in claims in which the veteran’s post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed during... More
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in returning veterans: anxiety, depression and avoidance (www.grandforksherald.com)
The armed forces involves much more than what they say it does. Before you think about joining the armed services, you should consider what your life would be like after service. A major problem... More
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Healing the Invisible Wounds of War: Diagnosis PTSD, Symptoms, Prevalence (www.emilitary.org)
Most people's stress response system acts like a home heating thermostat: it responds appropriately to environmental cues, such as wind or snow, by kicking up the heat. But after a... More
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VA Care: Fake Doctors and Fake Treatment (www.salem-news.com)
As a pharmacologist and PTSD victim, I try to keep up with what is going on in these two interrelated matters. Web sightings on the computer indicated 86 pages related to these subjects. One of the... More
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Bases brace for stress-related disorders (www.militarytimes.com)
Some 15,000 soldiers are heading home to this sprawling base after spending more than a year at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military health officials are bracing for a surge in brain injuries and... More
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Post-combat coping methods vary, troops say (www.af.mil)
Methods of coping with combat and its aftereffects vary as greatly as the effects themselves, six warriors participating in a conference panel here said.
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