PTSD: The Soldier's Private War

Chris Engel 1/14/137:32 PM

A good article on PTSD and the military. It's important to realize the angle the military takes on PTSD treatments.

"Among active-duty soldiers, the suicide rate is 18 a day - more of them kill themselves than are killed by enemy combatants. The military goes out of its way to conceal PTSD with diagnoses such as depression and personality disorder....

The VA system can't handle the influx of veterans with PTSD...."

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13788-ptsd-the-soldiers-private-war

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