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Veterans and PTSD...
Thanks for the article on posttraumatic stress disorder "The Hell of PTSD" [Nov. 30]. I fear that these young vets, whose challenges include a lack of veteran centers in rural states and the special needs of female vets who have been abused during military service, will be demonized because of tales of crime and may face discrimination, especially in a tight job market. This could be a good follow-up article. Mark Waddell, the vet you profiled, is still a leader. As a 'Nam vet with PTSD and a veterans' services representative, I think Waddell and his wife are doing...
When Sergeant Clint Hollibaugh was transferring from Iraq back to Oklahoma, he sat through the obligatory briefings on PTSD with one eye on the clock. "It was the usual stuff: 'Don't kick the cat, don't kill your wife,' " he says. Like many service members, he feared that any confession of mental trauma would delay his homecoming. However mixed up Hollibaugh felt after being the sole survivor of an ambush, he believed that it was nothing that could not be fixed by a burger, a few beers and sex. "Besides," he says, "I thought I was fine." But several...
There are no hard-and-fast rules for treating PTSD, but studies show that stricken veterans who have a strong social network of family and friends tend to bounce back faster. For Waddell, the treatment has been a combination of techniques designed to calm the storm of his wartime memories and his emotional responses to them. It involves everything from drugs to cathartic sessions of therapy to mapping his brain waves. It also helps for Waddell to vocalize his traumatic experiences, so he and Marshéle often speak to church and community groups about PTSD. It can take years...
...pictures of an Army town coping with PTSD...