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He was diagnosed with diabetes and PTSD, both connected to his combat service. While fighting for what he believed were his rightful benefits, he studied VA law. (The Advocate -- News)
Virtual Reality Shows Promise as Stress Disorder Treatment Jul 28, 2005
It's one of his many symptoms brought on by post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, that Frey is trying to overcome using a new virtual reality therapy for troops returning from Iraq ... A July 2004 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that about 17 percent of troops returning from Iraq suffer from PTSD-related symptoms. (ABC News - Top Stories)
Can hypertension drug 'erase' traumatic memories? Jul 28, 2005
A senior Hadassah-University Hospital psychiatrist renowned for his work on post-traumatic distress disorder (PTSD) is eager to collaborate with colleagues at New York's Cornell University who have launched a clinical study on whether a beta-blocker drug widely given for hypertension can "erase" trauma associated with horrific memories from people's brains ... Among the symptoms of PTSD are sleep disorders, difficulty in concentrating, irritability, nightmares and flashbacks to the traumatic... (Jerusalem Post, Israel)
Three's a Crowd: Jul 28, 2005
For those of you out there who are suffering from depression, anxiety, PTSD, or any other mental-health disorder, please don't listen to the preaching of celebrities who claim to be experts in mental health. Seek help from a licensed mental health provider. (Slate)
War's Mental Wounds Command New Attention Jul 28, 2005
Instead, the 37-year-old soldier struggles with a debilitating combination of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and concussion-caused brain injury ... They hope that early treatment - sometimes starting in Iraq - can help avoid the long-term chronic PTSD that afflicts thousands of Vietnam veterans, whose disorder was initially not even recognized upon their return from combat ... The VA reports that of the 360,000 soldiers who have been discharged after fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, more... (Ocnus.net)
Treating Female Veterans Jul 28, 2005
Some of these women may be suffering from PTSD - or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ... "In adult men we estimate the prevalence is 5% and in women it's 10%. It's higher in women and we don't know why," says Dr. Paula Schnurr of the National Center for PTSD. ... PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that affects some people who have been exposed to severe traumatic stress. (WCAX.com, VT)
Forum, 7-23: Keep VA money for veterans care Jul 23, 2005
And the Government Accountability Office says the VA is unable, through lack of adequate data, to assess its own capacity for the care of an increasing number of vets who bear the scars of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is occurring with alarming frequency among our troops. South Dakota is home to nearly 80,000 veterans. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Ecology and Environment, Inc. Reports UNCC Fails to Establish International Precedent for Damages to Public Health Jul 22, 2005
The Exposure and Health Survey also identified a substantial increase in the risk of the exposed population of experiencing symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with the increase ranging from two to five-fold depending on the evaluation criteria selected. Subsequent to the completion of the Exposure and Health Survey, a randomly selected group of participants were recalled for an interview in greater depth and a laboratory and physical examination carried out by... (Yahoo Finance -- Waste Management Services)
Support Veterans On VA's Birthday Jul 22, 2005
"While this may be true for many veterans, it is not true for many small town and isolated rural veterans; those isolated by living in rural remote areas or isolated by choice due to complicated symptoms of PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]." ... Many of those vets continue to suffer from PTSD-related problems, and mental health services are particularly difficult to access in remote areas. (The Ledger)
Brain Region May Govern Resilience to Trauma Jul 14, 2005
The most obvious example of this is post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ... Rauch said, "The most obvious connection [of the research] would probably be to PTSD, but we believe it certainly has implications for panic disorder and potentially for other anxiety disorders such as phobias.". (Forbes)
Women Soldiers More at Risk for Stress Disorder Jul 6, 2005
But she has something in common with the most grizzled and disgruntled of combat veterans: posttraumatic-stress disorder (PTSD) ... I call them my `PTSD moments', says Pickett, who returned from 15-month National Guard duty with the Armys Fourth Infantry Division in Iraq more than a year ago ... No one has firm statistics on the rates of PTSD for women vets, but preliminary data gathered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) suggests that women not only get it more often than men but... (MSNBC -- News)
A Lot of Talk While Veterans Continue to be Left Behind By Jack Dalton Jul 6, 2005
BushCo administration policies and votes in the House and Senate suggest that the GOP (and the Democratic Party) does not view the care of veterans as "a continuing cost of war. Both parties have over the years been asleep at the wheel when it comes to properly funding the V.A. so that veterans that come back from the messes they are sent into. For the next few weeks the House and the Senate, will fight over whether to give emergency funding of the V.A. of $975 million as says the House, or... (Aljazeerah.info)
Costs of care for veterans: high and rising Jul 4, 2005
"I'm no psychologist, but my understanding of the perceptual and psychological differences between men and women suggests the likelihood that PTSD reactions will be different, requiring nuanced treatment for a devastating condition when extensive clinical experience doesn't exist for women," says Colonel Smith, now a military analyst with the Friends Committee on National Legislation in Washington ... PTSD for all returning vets - men and women - may be of particular concern because of the... (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
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