News & Opinion
VA Confronts Growing PTSD Problem
Washington, DC,
February 16, 2012
As veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war return home, a significant number of them suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It’s not a new mental illness. Although not formally recognized until 1980, it’s been recognized through the centuries that the stresses of combat could produce long-lasting psychological effects. Earlier, PTSD was described in various ways such as shell shock, battle fatigue, and accident neurosis.
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