On AlterNet: trauma

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "trauma"

Epidemic: Over 400,000 Traumatic Brain Injuries for Vets Coming from Iraq and Afghanistan

Conn Hallinan, AlterNet. June 21, 2011.

America faces a huge challenge in caring for the shocking number or traumatized war vets.

Aftershock: The Ticking Time Bomb of Soldiers' Traumatic Brain Injuries

T. Christian Miller, Daniel Zwerdling, ProPublica. March 27, 2011.

Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are a generation of warriors whose fight has shifted from external combat zones to invisible internal battlefields.

Helping the Wounded: Vets Deal With Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Homelessness, Homicide, Suicide, Brain Injuries, and PTSD

Laurie Leitch, Elaine Miller-Karas, Psychotherapy Networker. December 5, 2010.

Thousands and thousands of young men and women have been profoundly wounded—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation

Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. December 30, 2009.

The Millennial Decade screwed with our heads and destroyed our national identity. Are we in for a cataclysmic century?

War Trauma Is an Admission of Weakness in 'Macho' Army Culture

Penny Coleman, AlterNet. March 14, 2008.

Army studies say one in three soldiers will return from Iraq with significant mental health problems, but the system isn't there to help them.