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Nov 14 2007 | Comments 3
Iraq Vets May Suffer Depression, Stress
liz | 4:13 PM | Uncategorized
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Iraq Vets May Suffer Depression, Stress
liz | 4:13 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
In addition to depression, PTSD, and similar problems suffered by returning Iraq and Afghanistan war vets, many must also deal with homelessness – and their psychological/psychiatric problems are made worse because of it. There isn’t even enough financial assistance available to make sure that all the returning vets can at least have a place to live, as is illustrated by the following newspaper article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/15/INGO8P5G391.DTL
How the military has used the personality disorders diagnosis to deny our troops the benefits normally afforded honorably discharged soldiers who have been injured, “How Specialist Town Lost his Benefits” by Jonathan Kors at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070409/kors
Also, “They’re throwing them away”
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/washington/story/0E4E0348801E58EB8625737B000A36A9?OpenDocument
Lack of food may cause hunger!!
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