Should US soldiers be released from the horrors of war before they go INSANE?

Question

A new study published by the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that mental health disorders or psychosocial ills have hit a third of the US soldiers that have returned from Afghanistan or Iraq.

The study from the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that a third of all US soldiers returning from the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq have received treatments from the Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 for mental illnesses or other psychosocial disorders.


http://www.playfuls.com/news_005393_Horrors_of_the_War_on_Terror_Make_US_Soldiers_Go_Insane.html psychosocial disorders.

Answer 1

I think your numbers are a little high, because 1/5 of troops in Iraq are combat troops, the rest never go beyond the wire. so I could believe that 1/3 or the 1/5 may have some problems, but like some other user said, most of us just did your job and came home, you let the pass be in the pass and move on with your life.

Answer 2

Archive of internal this!!! I am a Navy Recruiter who works beside many Marine Recruiters who have been to Iraq. Some have been on more than one occasion. They all seem fine to me. I think the only mental problem a Marine or Soldier faces is coming back home and finding out that his or her significant other was cheating. I am sorry if your Archive of Internal Medicine is ran by a Liberal Political Machine but that facts are 80% of Iraq is peaceful. Most of the violence happens in Baghdad and now we have so many Iraqi Troops on the the ground(over 300,000) that they are beginning to step up and secure their country the way they want to. We are on the road to success and that's why if you watch Democratic Liberal Media News on ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN you see them trying to trash the war because they want public opinion against the war, so they can justify their cut and run stratetgy and also defunding the war. They want to defund the war before it can become successful. Democrats love defeat!!! They love it. This mental illnes survey got its facts from liberals, I'm sorry.

Answer 3

When the soldiers do come home, they are going to need help and medical care, both mental and physical for a long time. This country owes to our veterans only the best of care. Ever since World War II there has been problems with the health of veterans. The government has been slow to react to problems that has surfaced due to the wars, examples: Jungle rott in feet wwii, agent orange Vietnam, Gulf War Syndrome. Take care of our Veterans when they have fulfilled their committments.

Answer 4

what do you mean by realized from the horrors of war? 80 percent of all the mental problems coming from these two wars are young medic's.imagine your friends dieing in your arms. you are trying your best to help them.yet it is not enough. imagine the horror of having to wear the same blood covered uniform for days or even weeks because the iud's the terrorists are using close down all major roads. some times the war lives on even thru the solider has come home. sure your average solder needs help. the question is how much do they need help? the V.A has never had a decent rep since the Vietnam war. lets face it it's easier to send a human being off to war than it is to pick up the tab to fix what gw started. maybe if gw's son's and daughters enlisted than he would be a little reluctant to start a war. there's an idea maybe it should be a law that a president can only start a war after his family enlists. all the king's men and all the king's solders could not put humpty dumpty back together again.

Answer 5

You do not give the US soldier much credit. Sorry, but I do. All soldiers who have been exposed to battle have psychological effects, if they're sane, but if you think those effects make this any less of an army you had better think again. In our society, we have been so touchy-feely for so long, we lose track of the fact that diagnosing ourselves has become big business. In the end, there is the man or woman whose "psychosis" is caused by war, and the thousands of wives in your state alone who have gotten their dose of "psychosis" from having a lousy husband. Me? I'll depend on the soldier anytime.

Answer 6

It would seem to me that with multiple tours PTSD would be higher than in previous wars. Couple multiple tours and an enemy who chooses to use civilians as their mode of operation and you have the ingredients for mental stress. PTSD is as much a killer of our troops as is an IED one happens immediately while the other lasts for the rest of ones life.

Answer 7

lexus4nxtc-

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8743574/

Soldier's mental problems NBC.

By the way the news on playfuls in this instance is properly backed up with legitimate sources.

zack
Do you really think that any right minded person would trust your opinion over that of educated professionals? I think not.

Answer 8

The horrors of war have been around since the 1st war of ancient history. I don't recall who said it perhaps General Patton....but I'll paraphrase...."...it is good that war is so horrible (terrible I think he used) lest we learn to love it too much."

The horrors of war should and in the past have been a motivator to end wars ASAP through military superiority directed by professional military commanders and not politicians and political opinion.

Answer 9

I have heard about all these psych problems and as an officer had to deal with a couple of my people who claimed to experience them. I carry an average number of battle scars, from shrapnel to bullets, and have never had so much as a bad dream. Maybe I was more cold-blooded than I should have been, or maybe it was just a job that had to be done and we did it, then got on with our lives. It does concern me that we are sending people prone to that sort of thing into combat. They should be with the rear echelons, not on point.

Answer 10

Oh yeah - go flush everything I did down the toilet because you are too lazy to Ask Somebody Who Has Been In Iraq if we should stay.

You are not worried about our mental health. You are just trying to use us as a tool - to support your politics.