Soldiers and Mental Health
A new study has shown a sharp increase in metal health disorders to over 37% of those returning home and seeking treatment. Among the mental disorders are alcoholism, depression, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. Some of these conditions not surfacing for a year or so after the soldier has returned home.
Experts are concerned that these numbers are going to match the post Vietnam era.
As much as the old administration would have us believe that soldiers are just inanimate chess pieces to be moved into action when needed, the rest of us are painfully reminded that a soldier is a person, a human being, and as such can only take so much. Most of us are not brought up and raised to be killing machines and to see people we know being shot and blown apart. This exposure to such danger and brutality takes a toll on the normal human mind. This increase in mental problems should have been anticipated and planned for, but instead our government when done with the soldier is simple done with the soldier and all the problems he brings back with him or her, are theirs to deal with on their own. How dare they? These soldiers need to be treated and helped so they can return to their families and society with as much normalcy as they can manage.
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