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Soldiers nursing the mental and emotional scars of war have overwhelmed the central Texas base, the Army's largest. Cases of posttraumatic stress disorder quadrupled from 2005 to 2007, and PTSD affects even those - like Hasan - who haven't gone off to war. "Mental-health issues are a real problem for the Fort Hood population," an Army study concluded last year. "Soldiers don't live in a vacuum," it added, noting that they have "families and friends who are also affected by the trauma the soldiers experience...
...opposition Hasan had toward the wars could have deepened because of his constant contact with soldiers suffering from PTSD, that 2008 Army study suggested. More broadly, an Army study released in July found that major crimes have been on the rise at U.S. Army bases since 2003. It noted that crime rates - and mental illnesses - are rising with increased deployments and casualties...
...that's the case, it may help explain the recurring nightmares that characterize psychiatric conditions like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Walker says. "The brain has not stripped away the emotional rind from that experience memory," he says, so "the next night, the brain offers this up, and it fails again, and it starts to sound like a broken record ... What you hear [PTSD] patients describing is, 'I can't get over the event...
...alterations in the body’s stress pathways, cortisol levels and exposure to violence. The symptoms attributed to an increased exposure to violence are similar to those experienced by patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, though Suglia said the children in the study were not clinically diagnosed with PTSD. “As a physician this kind of information is humbling because so much of what affects people’s health is outside of a doctor’s office,” said Thomas Lee, a professor in the department of health policy and management, who added...
...PTSD • army frowns on diagnosing of in Iraq veterans because of the cost of treatment...