Studies are being conducted to reduce combat-related nightmares among Soldiers returning from combat zones. ""A great concern is that a lot of Soldiers coming back from theater having had combat experience have recurring nightmares, along with other symptoms," Peterson said....
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War Resistor Successfully Challenges 'Misconduct' Charge War Resistor Sgt Chiroux successfully challenged his misconduct hearing, facing down the U.S. Army and offering a potential "green light" for other soldiers...
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peter.reardon on the ‘scars of war’:- This study is but one outcome of the Bosnian war, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (ptsd), it was welcome news personally that this emotional disorder is being...
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What happens when a social networking community based on photography and art is run by anti-social people? They self destruct, driving away the real artists expressing themselves, and encouraging lowest common...
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Imagine that my rate of perception (the speed at which the brain processes the world) was twice that of yours. There would be twice the amount of thoughts racing through my mind in comparison to the...
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In a follow up to the arrest of the Iraq Vets protest at the final Presidential Debate,reporter Stephen Dohnberg talks with member Sgt Chiroux about the charges faced,support they are receiving,tactics of the...
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It is funny how a day like today can effect me so deeply. I knew it was coming - it does every year. I still get overcome with emotion.
PTSD.
It is strange to think that the war was almost 18 years ago....
Canadian troops fighting in Afghanistan are up against two dangerous adversaries. The first, the elusive enemy; the second, the less-tangible threat of mental breakdown. Indeed, new studies suggest soldiers deployed to Afghanistan are more likely to suffer from mental illness...
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Recalling the effects of the Vietnam war on US Vet, a recent report states that 15 % of those US army officials involved in the Iraq invasion report sexual trauma or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. "...
Did Monsanto Corporation's Aspartame Sweetener Cause Agent Orange in Our Troops ? YOU DECIDE. Donald Rumsfeld was a leading supporter of the usage of the artificial sweetener Aspartame...
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In an article entitled, McCain's Wife Sets Combat Vets Back 30 Years with PTSD Remark, Vetvoice.com includes highlights from Cindy McCain's interview with MarieClaire.com: Q: You met your...
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Austrian man held Daughter Hostage, Raped Daughter, fathered 6 children through IncestAn incredible story of a missing woman, found over The weekend, was held hostage, repeatedly Raped by her Father. ...
An innocent and reportedly depressed Navy Airman Keith Roberts(1968-71) suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), andserving a four-year sentence for wire fraud since March 2007, has forreasons unclear been moved and caged in solitary confinement in afederal...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
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Are Veterans More Likely to Commit Violent Crime? If you read the New York Times you would think so. I remember reading a book called. "Damned Lies and Statistics" by Joel Best. In this book,...