diagnosed with PTSD and/or related disorders, after Iraq and Afghanistan.
See today's New England Journal of Medicine. No time to really write about it yet., but USA Today did They somehow managed to be chipper about it, though they do hint at the tsumami ahead:
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"The soldiers didn't come right away after Vietnam, either. If they come in the numbers predicted, the numbers the VA's own studies predict, we could be overwhelmed," Kagan says.
About 31% of male soldiers who served in Vietnam developed PTSD, but diagnosis standards were looser then than they are now, says McNally.
Treatments using therapy and medication have improved greatly since Vietnam, he says. The increasing numbers coming for help could be a positive sign, suggesting earlier detection and possibly better recovery rates. "There's reason for optimism," he says.
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Or the 75 percent cited earlier by Dan Frosch is the true number, with these more self-aware GIs our carnaries. This flood will roll over all of us - into our homes, our neighborhoods, our lives. If it doesn't, you're not paying attention.
More tonight.
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