Thursday, January 04, 2007

Experts: Iraq vets wrongly diagnosed

'Personality disorder' assessment allows for quick honorable discharge but tags veterans with a label that is hard to remove.


Former Army Pvt. Jason Harvey, shown here in Iraq, was diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Harvey said he later was forced to agree to a diagnosis of a personality disorder. 'They played me like a fiddle,' he said.




Vet plagued by combat stress, not the label he was discharged under


William Wooldridge 'Our lives are destroyed, and the military blames it on us.'

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