November 02, 2009

Women And Post-Combat PTSD

Much as with men, the women seeing active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan are seeing loads of post-combat PTSD, according to the New York Times.

"Never before has this country seen so many women paralyzed by the psychological scars of combat. As of June 2008, 19,084 female veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan had received diagnoses of mental disorders from the Department of Veterans Affairs, including 8,454 women with a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress — and this number does not include troops still enlisted, or those who have never used the V.A. system."

I appreciate their service and wish them well. While I'm wishing, I wish someone would come up with a safe, effective treatment for post-combat PTSD because what we are using now certainly isn't working well.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at November 2, 2009 12:05 AM
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"While I'm wishing, I wish someone would come up with a safe, effective treatment for post-combat PTSD"

Why not start with Emotional Freedom Technique? Gary Craig is working with veterans with PTSD and seeing good results www.emofree.com

Then there is an Assemblage Point shift, which is not at all as whacky as it sounds. PTSD is similar to schizophrenia, except with schizophrenia the source of the trauma isn't so evident.
http://www.fullspectrumhealing.co.uk/assemblage_2.htm

Posted by: Rossa Forbes at November 1, 2009 11:49 PM

We can't be sure if the mental disorders are from the trauma of combat, or from the all the vaccines and chemicals that our military is exposed to. They get more experimental meds than anyone.

Posted by: AnneS at November 2, 2009 05:00 AM

I've seen out in public so many (I'm assuming) military women who are also missing arms and legs. I've come to expect seeing this on male veterans due to past wars. I don't want to sound sexist, but seeing women like this is so incredibly jarring and makes me want to cry because of what we're doing to our young people :-(

Posted by: marlborojones at November 2, 2009 11:52 AM

Being so many of our military people are experiencing PTSD, our government should follow the UK's lead when it decided to train therapists to treat several mental disorders and train enough specialists in the US to provide competent therapy to our service people.

I continue to stress "competent", because if a therapist does not know how to provide proper therapy, the sessions will be useless.

Posted by: Evelyn Pringle at November 3, 2009 03:07 AM

A few months ago, I conducted an interview with an ex-military official who says that Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing works wonders for PTSD. You can find the interview by clicking my name in this comment's byline.

Posted by: David Bradley at November 3, 2009 05:13 AM

I just watched a documentary entitled "The Ground Truth" in which a number of veterans talk about suffering from PTSD after their return from Iraq.

If you have not already seen it, you might find the film interesting. And heartbreaking....

Posted by: TL at November 9, 2009 01:19 AM
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