On Tuesday night, Frontline (PBS) aired a program called "A Soldier's Heart," which dealt primarily with PTSD. Check out the website at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/
Several different soldiers were interviewed for this program, including friends, families, and mental health professionals. The main point of the program seemed to be that while there is more discussion about PTSD, there is still a stigma attached to "asking for help", etc. In other words, is the military handling the problem (PTSD, battle fatigue, etc.) differently or better than in the past, or not?
~Tragic
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Being with the airwing, we don't have quite the numbers of PTSD cases that the ground units have. People handle stress differently and what some people would laugh off, others are traumatized for life. Depends on the individual and what his stress threshhold is.
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Thanks for your point of view! I remember hearing some crazy statistic about PTSD cases in WWI. WHat was it called then?? Shell shock?
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