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| How does Post Traumatic Stress Disorder affect you? We've heard a lot about PTSD in military veterans. How the trauma of war affects them when they return home. How 255 British servicemen died in the Falklands war, but over 300 have committed suicide since they returned home. We've heard of the problems our military are now having with people returning from Iraq and Afghanistan - one newspaper reported that over 60 people every month are coming home with psychological injury. You may have heard that the prevalence of PTSD in Territorial Army personnel is twice as high as in regular troops. You may not have heard that 9-15% of personnel experiencing combat are likely to develop late onset PTSD - which appears 12-15 years after the initial exposure. You possibly don't know that 12-25% of the homeless are ex-military (many suspected of having PTSD). And you almost certainly won't know that up to 7% of the prison population are ex-military - the majority soldiers many who have been decorated for gallantry. Many have been convicted of murder and many of these subsequently diagnosed with PTSD. |
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| In real human terms this means that over 36,000 military veterans are homeless and 5,600 in prison - many for an injury they received during their service. You can find out more about the problem of military personnel in prison at www.vetsinprison.org.
A soldier who is shot or injured in action is not stigmatised. Rather they are given the best possible treatment to rehabilitate them and allow them to get back to a full productive life. And let's remember PTSD is not an illness that someone catches, it's not a sign of weakness or low moral fibre. |
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