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One In Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer from PTSD or...
[Editor’s Note: In view of the exclusive series that the newspaper began yesterday on Dep. City Atty. David McCarthy on post-traumatic stress disorder — especially as it relates to one’s employer — we offer this timely report, released last week by the Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, the non-profit global policy think tank. The McCarthy series (“How Life Changed for a Military Hero When He Came Home to Culver City,” April 24) will resume Monday.]
Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan — 300,000 in all — report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slightly more than half have sought treatment, according to a new Rand Corp. study.
Nearly 20 percent of military service members who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan — 300,000 in all — report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slightly more than half have sought treatment, according to a new Rand Corp. study.
