In recent years, more attention has been placed on the fact that service members deployed to combat zones, who assumed combat roles and saw the horrors of war at various levels, come home with more than just the physical injuries of war. They also come home with mental wounds; unseen injuries that may sometimes last [...]

We have shared time and again how challenging circumstances are for deployed troops, especially those who assume combat roles in war zones. A number of service members have lost their lives in the war, due to various circumstances; but, at least until now, the families of service members who took their own lives in combat [...]

Eleven to 20 percent of Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), based on estimates provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In order to bring more attention to the plight of all those who are suffering from PTSD, National PTSD Awareness Day was observed on Monday, [...]

A feature on the Navy Times shared a new tool developed by the Navy in the hopes of helping hospital corpsmen cope with stress due to war and combat deployments: a graphic novel. “The Docs: A Graphic Novel” features the war stories of four fictional characters deployed as corpsmen in Iraq. The Naval Health Research [...]

A report by Health Day News shared the results of a study conducted by researchers at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston. According to the study, which was published in the September issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely [...]

A recently-released report from a congressional task force issued a recommendation for the creation of a new top-level office at the Pentagon that will focus on suicide prevention. The report also called for more thorough investigations of military suicides, according to a report on the Navy Times. The task force that issued the report was [...]