Articles tagged with: Posttraumatic stress disorder
How Many Tours For Our Soldiers?
Yesterday one of our soldiers who was being treated for stress, entered the very clinic where he had been seen. He shot and killed five fellow soldiers while wounding three others. Sergeant John Russell was on his third tour of duty in Iraq and attempting to deal with the stress of being in this war, as well as the stress …
Alarming Rate of Suicide Among Veterans
My brother had a wicked sense of humor and could make me laugh with amazing ease. He once called me and said, “I don’t know whether to go bowling or commit suicide.” He did the latter. And I learned he could also make me cry from depths I never knew existed. Though he was not a veteran, his death has given me …
War and PTSD
Years ago I had a friend whom I will call Sam. He had been a Marine in Viet Nam and suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His conversations threw me back into the clutches of a time which stirred a caldron of emotions in me. Having come of age in the sixties, I thought I had developed a perspective of that …
