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...Twitter doesn’t have a stigma,” said Junco. “It is much more public and less revealing than other sites...
...symptoms of PTSD or major depression. "Anyone who goes through multiple deployments is going to be affected," says Dr. Matthew Friedman, director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for PTSD. But nearly half of these cases, according to the Rand study, go untreated because of the stigma that the military and civil society attach to mental disorders. The suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, counseled returning vets with PTSD, though there is no proof that this work unleashed his demons. But as Antonette Zeiss, deputy chief of mental-health services for Veterans Affairs...
...takes a while for a general's orders to trickle down to the ranks, where platoon leaders are supposed to steel their troops, physically and mentally, against the enemy. Says Colonel Jimmie Keenan, commander of Fort Carson's hospital: "I'd be a fool to say that all the stigma is gone. The marked difference is what's being put in place to deal with this. A soldier has to be able to come forward...
...concentrating in Chemical and Physical Biology, plans to spend his year in China studying how socioeconomic and social stigma affect HIV/AIDS patients...
Overcoming the stigma against gays in the military will not be an easy process, Woods told the students, but “it’s the older people that are holding...