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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Homeless Female Veterans A Population On The Rise

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.15.2009 | Impact

Read More: Iraq Veterans, Army Pvt. Margaret Ortiz, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Homeless Veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Impact News

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The $15,000 that former Army Pvt. Margaret Ortiz had in the bank when she left Iraq is long gone, spent on alcohol and coca...

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The War Of Yoga: Bringing Our Troops To The Mat!

Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Yoga, Mental Health, Troops, War on Terror, Sadie Nardini, Health, Meditation, Sadie, Veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News
Sadie Nardini

When it comes to their own, bliss-filled circles, many yogis feel right at home. Bring a foreign element to the door however, and you'll see that often, this sanctuary is then revealed as the dogma-house it really is.

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Vets Battle Unemployment and War Injuries

Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Veterans, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Homeless Veterans, Afghanistan, Iraq War, Veterans Unemployment, Ptsd, Iraq, Recession, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Politics News
Aaron Glantz

Recently discharged vets are joining the swelling ranks of the country's unemployed. They bring to the job hunt both special skills and training and, often, the terrible traumas and injuries of their military experiences.

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What Is PTSD?: A Post-Hasan Primer

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Dementia, Alzheimer's, Major Hasan, Military-Psychologists, Ptsd, Health Care, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News
Scott Mendelson, M.D.

Claims that mental health workers are at risk for PTSD from treating their patients add an unnecessary layer of confusion to the question of how we can best serve our veterans.

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Is There a Fort Hood-New Haven Connection?

Aimee Liu | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Yale University, Veterans PTSD, New Haven-Connecticut, Fort Hood, Major Hasan, Psychology, Fort Hood Shootings, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Media News
Aimee Liu

Could it be that there is something about the steady exposure to stories of the horror of war that twists the psyche?

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Brain Scans Reveals Invisible Damage Of PTSD

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Afganistan, Neuroscience, Mental Health, Military, Brain, Health, Brain Damage, Ptsd, Iraq, Brain Scan, Wellness, Veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

WASHINGTON — Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-...

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PTSD: Fort Hood Shooting Shines Spotlight

ABC News | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Army, Troops, US Soldiers, Veterans PTSD, Crime, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Living News

Rates of PTSD, which may or may not have played a role in Hasan's case, along with traumatic brain injuries, are soaring, and are a leading cause of s...

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Veterans: Casualties of the Drug War

Daniel Robelo | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veteran, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, United States Armed Forces, Traumatic Brain Injury, War in Iraq, Drug Policy Institute, Substance Abuse, Veteran's Day, Veteran's Affairs, War on Drugs, Iraq, Ptsd, Tbi, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News
Daniel Robelo

It's a sad day in America when, instead of being offered compassion and treatment, veterans struggling with substance abuse and PTSD as a result of their service are locked up for these conditions.

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The Fort Hood Killer and PTSD

Jeremiah Workman | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Fort Hood, Ptsd, Iraq, Afghanistan, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, World News, World News
Jeremiah Workman

No, the alleged killer did not have combat-induced Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But he did treat men and women with PTSD, and that is a major issue that hardly anyone has discussed.

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News
David A. Love

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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A Gift on Veterans Day: Re-Engage Veterans in Service

John Bridgeland | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Community Service, Faith Based Institutions, At-Risk Youth, Sonia Meneses, Troops to Teachers, Congress, Veterans Service Corps, Iraq, Afghanistan, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Politics News
John Bridgeland

America's support for veterans should not stop at the airport gate. How our nation treats its returning veterans says a lot about our gratitude for their service.

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Cairo to Fort Hood: Broader Engagement at Home and Abroad

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Science Envoy Program, Islam, Fort Hood, Physicians, Veterans Day, Anderson Cooper, In the Land of Invisible Women, Taliban, Waco, State Department, Barack Obama, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Al Qaeda, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Zakat, Islamophobia, Unabomber, Jihad, Armistice Day, Saudi Arabia, Cnn, Insomnia, New York Times, Nidal Malik Hasan, Hillary Clinton, Muslim, Obama Cairo Speech, Ground Zero, Politics News
Qanta Ahmed, MD

Mass murders have become a depressingly familiar punctuation in the rhythm of modern day American despair.

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Families, Caregivers Bear the Biggest Burden

Bob Woodruff | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cost of War, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Fort Hood, RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research, Veteran's Issues, Veteran's Day, Rand, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News
Bob Woodruff

This Veterans Day, after we raise the flag, we must raise awareness about wars hidden injuries, and what's required for injured service members, families and caregivers to have safe futures.

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Deaths at Fort Hood

Louise Farr | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Iraq, Military Training, Psychology, Major Nidal Hasan, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News
Louise Farr

The military is a world of its own, and its psychologists and psychiatrists are doing nothing less than attempting to upend an entrenched culture.

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What Our Pets Know That We Don't

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Animal Intelligence, Rupert Sheldrake, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Seizure Dog, Pets, Ptsd, Live Longer, Helper Animals, Earthquake Prediction, Animals, Living News
Lee Schneider

We humans are learning that our pets are pretty smart creatures. Not only have they managed to negotiate free room and board for life, they also help people heal and have learned how to communicate with us using our own language.

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Major Hasan Did Not "Catch" Vicarious PTSD

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Military, Major Hasan, Ptsd, Crime, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News
Scott Mendelson, M.D.

A well trained psychiatrist or psychologist is not driven into violent frenzy by dealing with the trauma of soldiers, nor do they acquire those soldiers' emotional wounds vicariously.

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Louis Bressler Speaks: Fort Carson Soldier Charged With Two Murders

rollingstone.com | L. Christopher Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kevin Shields, Bruce Bastien, Fort Carson, Kevin Shields Murder, Louis Bressler, Baghdad, Iraq, Kenneth Eastridge, Charlie Company, Fort Carson Murders, Louis Bressler Murders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News

In the six years since combat operations began in Iraq, Fort Carson -- the country's third-largest Army base, with 22,000 active soldiers on duty -- h...

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Of Pachyderms and Paratroopers

G.A. Bradshaw | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fort Hood, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News
G.A. Bradshaw

To stem widespread Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, we are advised by listening to the veterans who served, survived, and suffer from the ravages of the condition. Their visions and lessons are invaluable.

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Black Ops and Fort Hood

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Malik Hassan, Fort Hood Shooter, Fort Hood, Afghanistan, Texas, Virginia Tech, Arabic, Alyssa Peterson, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

There are lots of places to start looking if we want clues as to what happened at an Army base at Fort Hood, Texas. One obvious clue is Virginia Tech....

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The Stigma of PTSD

Jeremiah Workman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Afghanistan, Fallujah, Veterans, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, World News, Living News
Jeremiah Workman

Nutcase. Psycho. Unbalanced. These are some of the words I've been tagged with since being diagnosed with PTSD. Our society's image of the returning warrior with PTSD has been framed by Hollywood.

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Struggling Iraq Vet's Wife May Be Deported

LA Times | Teresa Watanabe | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq PTSD, Jack Barrios, Iraq Vet Ptsd, Iraq War, Iraq Vet Deportation, Iraq, Iraq Veteran, Iraq Vet Wife Guatemala, Iraq Veteran Deportation, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News

The nightmares still plague him. The terrifying mortar attacks. The loss of an Albanian soldier and ally, mutilated by shrapnel. The Iraqi children, b...

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Helping Vets, Pets, and Primates

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military, Pets, National Defense Authorization Act, Primates, Al Franken, Ed Whitfield, Service Dogs, Robert Byrd, Johnny Isakson, Animal Research, Ron Klein, Animals, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Defense Appropriations, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Congress took two steps in recent days on animal issues, as part of its larger bills related to the Department of Defense and military spending.

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Trauma And The Benefits Of Writing About It

Psychology Today | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Therapy, Trauma, Health, Writing, Narrative, Psychology, Ptsd, Writing Therapy, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

Research by my colleague Jamie Pennebaker and his colleagues suggests that one of the best therapies for this kind of psychological trauma is also one...

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The War at Home

Jeremiah Workman | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Ptsd, Afghanistan, Fallujah, Veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, World News
Jeremiah Workman

I learned the hard way that the war doesn't stop when our boots touch home soil again, it just changes form. We're tough guys who don't need help. For generations, that's been the ethos in the military.

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Reflections on Suicide

Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Iraq PTSD, US Marines, Survivor, Afghanistan, General Mark Graham, Army Suicide, US Soldiers, War, Suicide, Iraq, Ptsd, Suicide Prevention, US Army, War on Terror, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Books News
Christopher Lukas

The rate of death by suicide in the armed forces is increasing at alarming rates. Death is terrible, no matter how it comes. But death by suicide leaves those left behind, asking Why? How?

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