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Combat Trauma Turns Top-Ranking Sergeant Into Mental Health Advocate
By the end of his tour in Iraq, Command Sergeant Major Thomas Adams was crushed by memories. Too many memorial services for dead soldiers. Too many visits to the wounded in hospital wards. Too many innocents... ...
Experts Tally Iraq War's Health Cost
Few saw it coming, but six years into combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, health care providers are overwhelmed by the demands of returning veterans suffering from mental health stress or traumatic brain injury. http://www.trutho ut.org/issues_06/051107HA. shtml http://freepage.t woday.net/search?q=mental+ health+stress https://freep age.twoday.net/search?q=tr aumatic+brain+injury ...
A Shock Wave of Brain Injuries
About 1,800 US troops are now suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) caused by penetrating wounds. But neurologists worry that hundreds of thousands more - at least 30 percent of the troops who've... ...
The Women's War
Sara Corbett reports on the women veterans experiences of war, sexual trauma during deployment, and post-combat mental health struggles. http://www.truthout.org/ docs_2006/031807C.shtml http://freepage.twoday.ne t/search?q=post-combat ...
One-Third of "War on Terror" Vets Have Mental Health Problems
In Search of Support for PTSD Since leaving Iraq in 2003, Jullian Philip Goodrum - like many soldiers - has been gradually overcoming the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. When he began experiencing... ...
Post-traumatic futility disorder
Salon by Mark Benjamin 12/21/06 This week, even as former Secretary of State Colin Powell lamented that 'the active Army is about broken' from repeated combat tours, President Bush announced that he... ...
US Soldiers' Suicide Rate in Iraq Doubles
US soldiers serving repeated Iraq deployments are 50 percent more likely than those with one tour to suffer from acute combat stress, raising their risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to... ...
Troops With Stress Disorders Being Redeployed
Soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder are being recycled back into combat. "It's flat-out not a good idea," says Dr. John Wilson, an expert in combat trauma. Wilson says the danger of having someone... ...
Join Cindy Sheehan, Meada Benjamin and 65 others in defending SFSU students
http://www.petitiononline. com/sfsu10/ Ten peaceful student protesters at SFSU were grabbed and pushed out of a career fair by police, where the students were protesting military recruitment. They were... ...