Iraq Troops' PTSD Rate As High As 35 Percent

medicalnewstoday.com:

The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers anticipating that the rate among armed forces will be as high as 35%.

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[PTSDstressed]

Dr Ronald M Chase MD--- a psychiatrist at--- VA Medical Center Lyons
151 Knollcroft Road Lyons, NJ was fighting the same battle back during the Viet Nam War. Washington didn't want to deal with it back then and they are still ignoring it now.

Go to www.drptsd.com and see the videos of the soldiers in therapy.

As a former military psychiatrist, Dr Chase was recruited by the Veterans Admistration to develop a program for the treatment of combat veterans suffering from P.T.S.D. in 1984. His dedication perseverance and determination to question dogma became a threat to the government institutions that hired him. The hospital administration discredited him and thereby turned their back on the veterans who were crying out for help.

These veterans wanted a treatment program in which they would be understood and respected for their service to their country.

The doctor's outspoken candor and need to clarify the nature of a viral disease that was killing veterans placed him at odds with the Center of Disease Control and National Institutes of Health.

Our military hospitals were not equipped to treat the emergent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as it was their job to return the wounded to combat roles, if possible. Otherwise, it was assumed that the Veterans Administration hospitals would stop their emotional bleeding.

[hiker61]

Wait a few more years and the rate will probably be higher as so many PTSD troops fly under wire at present. What should be of major concern is what Afghanistan will produce in stats concerning PTSD, TBI, and other disabilities, as conditions there in many ways tougher than in Iraq. I hope Washington is getting ready to deal with the issue of massive increases in the VA budget, because this will be decades long commitment we have just consigned ourselves to.