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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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The Fort Hood Shooter Didn't Have PTSD, So Can We Please Stop Insulting People With Post-Traumatic Stress?

Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Multiple Deployments, Paranoid, Fort Hood, Terrorists, Troops, Mental Health, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, Suicide, Positive Psychology, Schizophrenic, Ptsd, Dept of Defense, Stress, V.A. Secretary Shinseki, Vicarious Trauma, Dr. Hasan, Veterans Administration, Posttraumatic Stress, Schizoid, Secretary of Defense Gates, Symptoms of PTSD, Compassion Fatigue, Health, Living News
Belleruth Naparstek

It's good to see public discussion about posttraumatic stress and concern for the health and welfare of our troops. But I don't think the events at Fort Hood had anything to do with posttraumatic stress.

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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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Predict PTSD: Military Experiment Seeks To Predict Soldiers' Stress Risk

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology

Read More: Predict PTSD, Soldier PTSD, Prediction PTSD, PTSD Study, PTSD Experiment, PTSD Army Experiment, Troops PTSD, Predicting PTSD, Ptsd, PTSD Study Army, Technology News

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fix...

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The Right Mental Health Care for Returning Vets: Neglecting Them This Time Will Be Dangerous

Bryant Welch | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Positive Psychology, Military Mental Health, Martin Seligman, Ptsd, Politics News
Bryant Welch

If, as a nation, we do not provide appropriate care for returning veterans, terrorism will take yet another horrible toll on America by turning our own troops against us and against themselves.

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Could Fort Hood Tragedy Been Avoided?

Lawrence J. Siegel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Veterans PTSD, Ptsd, September 11th, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News
Lawrence J. Siegel

As a child psychologist, I worked with families who were affected in the aftermath of September 11. My three decades as a mental health professional did not fully prepare me for this task.

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Fort Hood: A Harbinger of Things to Come?

Bryant Welch | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fort Hood, Military Shootings, The Psychology of Optimism, Nidal Malik Hasan, Military Mental Health, Psychology, Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology, Ptsd, Torture, Politics News
Bryant Welch

If we can identify the real problem that caused the tragedy at Ford Hood we can possibly prevent such episodes in the future. Our troops have been through enough.

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Stress, Suicide and Homicide: How Do We Help Our Veterans Cope?

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fort Hood, Mental Health, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Veterans PTSD, Ptsd, Veterans Administration, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News
Luis Carlos Montalván

In the aftermath of Fort Hood, too many are focusing on the religion of the alleged perpetrator, rather than on a more important issue: the lack of adequate psychosocial care for those in uniform.

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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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Military Sexual Trauma - Seeking Justice

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact

Read More: Veterans for Peace, Department of Veterans Affairs, Kira Mountjoy-Pepka, Rape, Military Sexual Trauma, Veteran's Administration, Ann Wright, Grace After Fire, Service Women;s Action Network, Coalition Against Sexual Assault in the Military Services, Rotc, Code Pink, Pack Parachute Charity, Ptsd, Afghanistan War, Pascale Bourgaux, Veteran's Day, Military, Mercedes Gallego, Eve Ensler, Iraq War, Tina Priest, Rape in the Ranks, Fort Bragg, Disable Amercian Veterans, Staff Sergeant Sandra Lee, Military Rape Awareness Wekk, U.S. Army, Vva, Vetwow, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

While embedded with Marines during the invasion of Iraq, journalist Mercedes Gallego was cautioned that it was not safe to be alone. The reason, the servicewomen explained, was fear of being raped.

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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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Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Operation Desert Fix, Operation Desert Storm, Tallil Air Force Base, Amarillo VA, Burn Pits, Camp Lejeune NC, Army SSG. Gregory Wilson, Va, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Operation Desert Shield, Ft. Bragg NC, Marine Corps, Ptsd, Veteran's Day, War Wound, Albuquerque VA, Male Breast Cancer, Pyridostigmine Bromide, 82nd Airborne, Soldiers With Cancer, Ft. Campbell Kentucky, Veteran's Hospital, Permethrin, Ft. Hood Texas, Gulf War, CNN. R. B. Stuart, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Cancerous Tumors, Dod, IED's, Living News
R. B. Stuart

The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.

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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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Veterans Day: Dusty, Faded Surprise

Wendy Block | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Ptsd, Homeless Veterans, Iraq, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, The Giving Life, Veterans Day, Living News
Wendy Block

I remember him every time a street person asks for money, when a guy holds up a cardboard sign saying something like "Viet Nam vet. Will work for food," when news stories cover soldiers returned from Iraq.

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5 Things You Didn't Know About Veterans (And How You Can Support Them)

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: Veterans Disability, Veterans PTSD, Homeless Veterans, Veterans History Project, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, Troops Care Packages, Veterans Day, 5 Facts About Veterans, American Folklife Center, Veterans How to Help, Ptsd, Troops Letters, Veterans, Facts About Veterans, Facts About Veterans Day, Veterans Facts, Veterans Day Facts, Homeless Veterans Facts, Veteran Facts, Impact News

Veteran's Day only happens once a year, but our nation's veterans need our support year-round. We've pulled together five facts about U.S. veterans, t...

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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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Veterans Treatment Courts: A Crucial Reintegration Strategy

James R. Knickman | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Afghanistan Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Veterans-Courts, Veterans Mental Health Care, Veterans, Mental Health, Ptsd, New York News
James R. Knickman

Our legal system must devise new ways to cope with the veterans in the criminal justice system for nonviolent offenses. The first veterans court, in Buffalo, New York, is already showing results.

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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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Fort Hood: When Stress Kills

Roberta Lee | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Psychiatry, Killing Spree, Stress Reduction, Majar Nadal Malik, American Muslims, Ptsd, Anxiety, The Balanced Life, Living News
Roberta Lee

It's beginning to look like our lives are more at stake than we care to acknowledge and if we don't do something different, well...any one of us could be dead sooner than we think.

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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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Fort Hood Shootings: Soldiers Often 'Racialize' to Cope

Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Arabs, Fort Hood, Homeless, Iraq, Ptsd, Fort Hood Shootings, Arab Americans, Veterans, Politics News
Aaron Glantz

I was surprised that it was a psychiatrist that shot a lot of people. It's no longer surprising to me that returning veterans would kill a bunch of people. But this guy was a psychiatrist who hadn't been deployed.

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Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Dylan Klebold, Islam, Ft. Hood, Columbine Book, Crime, Eric Harris, Ethnicity, Bullying, Terrorism, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Victims, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Guns, Colorado, Texas, Columbine, Religion, Soldiers, Military, Fort Hood Analysis, Psychiatrist, US Soldiers, Nidal Hasan, Ptsd, Home News

My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...

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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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