Mental Health Issues and Afghanistan/ Iraq War Vets
Now don’t blow this out of proportion and start thinking that American Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war are going loopy, but the fact is that many of them have mental health issues upon returning from the sandbox and need counseling or other mental health help. The military offers more mental health assistance than most would think. They don’t want their “Assets” (yeah I said it, I used to be an asset) to become risk factors. They want mentaly healthy soldiers to serve and “protect”. Anyway, enough of my ranting. Heres a short excerpt from Reuters.com.
“The rates that we previously reported based on surveys taken immediately upon return from deployment substantially underestimate the mental health burden,” the military authors wrote in the report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“This study suggests that the mental health problems identified by Veterans Affairs clinicians in more than a quarter of recent combat veterans may have already been present within months of returning from war,” the researchers wrote.
Mental health problems and suicide rates have increased among U.S. troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a string of studies released this year.”
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