Wars cause mental health problems... Who knew...?

the study compares iraq, afghanistan, bosnia and kosovo...

More than one in three soldiers and Marines who have served in Iraq later sought help for mental health problems, according to a comprehensive snapshot by Army experts of the psyches of men and women returning from the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places.

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Iraq veterans are far more likely to have witnessed people getting wounded or killed, to have experienced combat, and to have had aggressive or suicidal thoughts, the Army report said. Nearly twice as many of those returning from Iraq reported having a mental health problem -- or were hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder -- compared with troops returning from Afghanistan.

i'd like to see comparative data from vietnam...

[T]he Department of Veterans Affairs is already contending with a recent surge in demand for help with PTSD from troops whose combat experiences go as far back as the Vietnam War or World War II.

i am part of that "surge..." on another note, there's nothing like reading a phrase like "as far back as the vietnam war" to remind me of my advancing age...

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