Truemors
Digg
del.icio.us
AddToAny
Write
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
U.S. Post-War Suicides Could Exceed Combat Deaths
by Jarrett Martineau | May 5, 2008 at 12:37 pm | 170 views | 2 comments | 10 recommendations
by Kuwait
In thinking ahead a few years, this becomes a very powerful and troubling assertion. Could post-war suicides really surpass the number of U.S. soldiers killed during the war in Iraq?
At the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington, Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md., told reporters ``it's quite possible that the suicides and psychiatric mortality of this war could trump the combat deaths."He referred to an April 2008 study by the Rand Corporation that found that almost 20 percent of US veterans back from Iraq and Afghanistan have symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression. Only a little more than half, however, have sought treatment. 1.6 million troops have so far served in those two wars.
May 5, 2008 at 12:37 pm by Jarrett Martineau, 170 views, 2 comments
Crowd Power
Kuwait
Kuwait city, Kuwait
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (2)
at 13:26 on May 5th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 16:24 on May 6th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
This is so mess up. These individual fight, the fight and survive the battles of the wars - we put them in - only to loss the battle to what linger within afterwards for fighting in them. Now that sucks. I do not believe I'd be the same either, who could be.
Here is the Original Report via: Rand.org Invisible Wounds of War