Post traumatic stress rises among war zone soldiers

By: Martha Linden, PA, The Independent
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Nearly 4,000 new cases of mental health disorder were diagnosed last year among armed services personnel, according to figures published today.
Mental health statistics released by the Ministry of Defence showed 3,917 new cases of armed services personnel assessed to have a mental disorder [...]

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PREDICTING MENTAL ILLNESS IN SOLDIERS PART THREE

BMJ 2006;333:1123 (25 November).
Letters
Predicting mental illness in soldiers
Pre-deployment screening for vulnerability to post- traumatic stress disorder
By: Ferhal Utku, Ken Checinski, senior lecturer in addictive behaviour
That post-traumatic stress disorder (and other mental disorders) are difficult to predict, with the implication that ex-service personnel are likely to present to civilian mental health services with such conditions.
Post-trauma debriefing [...]

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PREDICTING MENTAL ILLNESS IN SOLDIERS (Part Two)

I just had a quick look at the rapid responses to this article in a recent BMJ. As you know, I recently did a BLOG on Predicting Mental Illness in Soldiers (http://bmjjournals.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/mental-illness-in-deployed-soldiers/ ).
It is obviously very important indeed to see what can be done to avoid MENTAL Illness in general and in Soldiers in particular as [...]

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PREDICTING MENTAL ILLNESS IN SOLDIERS

Recently a German Psychiatrist who works for the German Army stated that the main predictor of soldiers getting PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and other mental illnesses, was not so much the lenght away from home, even though they spend a lot more time at home than British soldiers. But that it was more if the [...]

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MENTAL ILLNESS IN DEPLOYED SOLDIERS

 The army is taking on too many jobs, resulting in too many soldiers going off sick.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/335/7620/571  

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