Archives for the 'PTSD' Category
Shadows Of War
Published on 8 Aug 2009 at 10:39 am.
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Filed under Iraq, PTSD, military.
Acute Politics on a friend back from the war who ran into some trouble there and more back here.
GOP-Caused PTSD-Related Kiddie Porn Jones
Published on 8 May 2009 at 10:45 am.
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Filed under PTSD, crime, pervs, pols, porn.
It’s a shocking allegation, that the rightwing persecution of Kerry’s Swift Boat Veterans for Truth induced a tragic case of PTSD perversion in Wade Sanders. via Howie Carr at Boston Herald.
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Takes One To Know One
Published on 24 Mar 2009 at 9:30 pm.
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Filed under PTSD, military.
The VA hires combat vets who’ve experienced PTSD to find combat vets experiencing PTSD and talk to them about seeking treatment. ”Sometimes there is a certain look in their eye,” says former Army sergeant Derek Graner. AP.
PTSD-urple Heart
Published on 14 May 2008 at 11:00 am.
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Filed under PTSD, military.
WSJ reports on a move to award Purple Hearts for PTSD:
Suicidal GI Meme
Published on 6 May 2008 at 1:11 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Iraq, PTSD, military.
Keeps marching on. U.S. government shrink reports that Iraq/Afghan war vets’ suicides may outstrip the death rate. Bloomberg:
PTSD Watch
Published on 8 Mar 2008 at 5:47 am.
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Filed under McCain, PTSD, media.
Will he get annoyed? Irked? Strike a tone? Fail to be sufficiently deferential? Temperament watch on John McCain catches him expressing frustration with an idiotic needling by a NYT reporter. I bet some grumpy old editor put her up to it.
Post-Traumatic Presidency
Published on 8 Feb 2008 at 3:07 pm.
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Filed under PTSD, pols.
That’s more or less what we’re looking at, like it or not. As a Marine wag not a long time ago in Ramadi, America isn’t at war. The Marine Corps is at war. America is at the mall. But the fact is that war has deeply injured the nation, deepened divides, doing damage on both sides of the aisle, [...]
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Shrinkwrap Your War
Published on 31 Dec 2007 at 8:41 am.
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Filed under GWOT, PTSD, military.
Via Shrinkwrapped, The Soldier’s Project is a private network of psychiatrists and psychologists offering free counseling to war vets and their families outside the military and VA systems.
GI Suicide Epidemic?
Published on 17 Nov 2007 at 8:51 am.
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Filed under PTSD, military.
Maybe, maybe not. CBS sees smoke, cries fire. Neglects to tell us much about whether the Fire Department is actually on it, whether anything’s actually burning. Ignores evidence of a curious counter-epidemic. Anyway, would it have killed them to add a line about their methodology in the actual report? Well, they’re TV, whaddaya want. I’d expect a [...]
