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Focus On Psychological Injuries Of Soldiers At US Mental Health Summit
Addressing the mental health summit organized jointly by the Defense and Veterans Affairs Departments Monday, Mr. Gates noted that in the past unseen injuries such as post-traumatic stress and Traumatic Brain Injury were not accorded the full attention they deserved.
These kinds of ailments, in one form or another, have been around as long as war itself. Historical examples date back to ancient Greece where the Spartans called it fear shedding. After the American Civil War, the term soldiers heart was used; in World War I they called it shell shock; later combat fatigue; and in the 1970s, it was known simply as "Post-Vietnam syndrome."
But the protracted military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq and the repeated deployments of much of Americas ground forces have brought a new focus to the signature wounds of these wars and on the psychological health of the force and their families, Mr. Gates said.
He also regretted that paperwork for injured troops could still be frustrating, adversarial, and unnecessarily complex. We need to continue refining roles and responsibilities between DoD and VA, and finding better ways to share information a goal both Secretary Shinseki and I are committed to.
According to a RAND study last year, there could be more than 600,000 service members with TBI, PTSD, or similar illnesses. Some signs are apparent severe depression, or even suicide. Others are more elusive and sometimes ill-defined, arriving in the form of nightmares, anxiety, or unexplained and uncontrollable anger. Other acts, seemingly unrelated, bear this enemys indelible fingerprints: petty thefts, fights, spousal abuse, drug or alcohol abuse. Today, it is all too clear that TBI, post-traumatic stress, and numerous other related mental ailments are widespread, entrenched, and insidious.
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