It goes by many names: "War Malaise." "Combat Fatigue" "Shell Shock"

PTSD: Coping After Combat

November 11, 2010 - It goes by many names: "War Malaise." "Combat Fatigue" "Shell Shock". Since Vietnam though its been called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. There are 1.6 million veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan war alone. And one-in-four has some symptom of P-T-S-D. And as time passes, if Vietnam is any blueprint, that number will climb dramatically over the years. No one really knows the best way to treat it. However, there is a new approach. Its a lab that uses cutting edge science that could not have happened without today’s technology.

You’ve heard it before. When veterans tell their stories of war, it is often done with an emotionless flat ton. But when the echo of war is gone what happens then? If left alone, Post Traumatic Stress will come out, most often in a destructive way:



Staff Sergeant Armand Mayville, Jr.: "Oh yeah, I was getting angry over everything. Like you know if the kids didn't put their dishes in the sink. Just stupid stuff." Corporal Will Thorpe: 'before it was just uuuugh, i was just jacked-up all the time." Lance Corporal Daniel Printz lll: “I was physically there, but emotionally and mentally, I was completely separate from my family." {read rest}