Study: 300,000 vets have depression or PTSD

[unhappycamper]

Study: 300,000 vets have depression or PTSD
By Pauline Jelinek - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Apr 17, 2008 16:03:07 EDT

WASHINGTON — Three hundred thousand U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries, a new study estimates.

Only about half have sought treatment, said the study released Thursday by the RAND Corp.

“There is a major health crisis facing those men and women who have served our nation in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Terri Tanielian, the project’s co-leader and a researcher at the nonprofit RAND.

“Unless they receive appropriate and effective care for these mental health conditions, there will be long-term consequences for them and for the nation,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The 500-page study is the first large-scale, private assessment of its kind — including a survey of 1,965 service members across the country, from all branches of the armed forces and including those still in the military as well as veterans who have left the services.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_mental_041708/

[yy4me]

1. I wish the whole paragraph was part of the story headline. It is

worse than it looks...and that is horrible enough. Mind you, this article is head wounds and mental problems. No part of this particular discussion is the huge story of the horrible maimed bodies. What have we done to the world, I never thought I'd live to see this. Shame