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News items on 'Post Traumatic Stress Disorder'
Computer healing
(BBC 18/10/2009)
A virtual reality computer programme is being used to treat Iraq war veterans in the US. The soldiers are able to relive the sights, the sounds and even the smells of warfare. In a small windowless room a US marine puts on a 3D headset and picks up a dummy rifle. Sergeant Robert Butler has been a marine for nearly 20 years and done two tours of Iraq. After his last stint he returned with post traumatic stress disorder - what was once called shell shock.
(BBC 08/09/2009)
An ex-serviceman who recently set up a helpline for soldiers who believe they have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has told BBC Radio 5 live that the Ministry of Defence needs to do more to help servicemen. Alex Webster served in the armed forces from 1990-2002 in combat zones including the Gulf and Afghanistan. "I joined the army at 16 and you more or less get turned from a normal civilian into a robot... you don't actually notice it until after you come out of the forces."
220,000 treated for post-traumatic stress
(The Scotsman 26/07/2009)
MORE people are being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than are serving in Britain's armed forces, it emerged last night. The UK Government said 220,000 individuals seek help for the condition. Lawyers increasingly cite PTSD when trying to sue on behalf of people who have endured minor accidents. Prof. David Alexander, the psychiatrist who treated the survivors of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster, said: "What I am worried about is that they are devaluing the currency of trauma,
(The Scotsman 26/07/2009)
Beedie, from the fishing village of Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire, was just 25 at the time of the sinking. Ever since, he says, he has suffered flashbacks and nightmares. Unemployed and entering his mid-30s, he is trying to sue his former employers for half a million pounds, enough, he believes, to see him through to retirement. His grounds? Beedie has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, the condition soldiers in the trenches of the First World War called shell shock.
Veteran mental care 'inadequate'
(BBC 21/07/2009)
Care offered by the NHS to military veterans with post traumatic stress disorder is "a spit in the ocean", the head of the charity Combat Stress says. Outgoing chief executive Commodore Toby Elliott says his charity has 9,000 registered patients but the government provides for less than half of them. He says six community NHS mental health pilot schemes are inadequate and may end up providing patchy service. The Department of Health says it is working hard to provide adequate care.
Troubled war veterans leave UK 'sitting on a suicide timebomb'
(The Scotsman 16/07/2009)
FAILINGS in the care given to British troops who suffer from mental illness are a "national scandal", the Tories have claimed. Shadow defence secretary Liam Fox warned yesterday that the UK was sitting on a "timebomb" of future post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. The Tories highlighted the dangers at a summit in Westminster yesterday. "We will have a generation of disabled young servicemen," Dr Fox said.
(BBC 23/06/2009)
In the run-up to Armed Forces Day on 27 June, some veterans warn that fierce fighting in Afghanistan - and the legacy of the Iraq conflict - could lead to more personnel needing help for mental trauma. Former serviceman Andy Lorimer knows exactly how that feels. "Friends said I wasn't the same. I started drinking, and cut myself off from everyone," he says. "I couldn't remember things. It came as a real shock to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder."
Brain scan 'could diagnose PTSD'
(BBC 03/04/2009)
Scientists say they are moving ever closer to being able to diagnose Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with a brain scanner. Research to be presented to the World Psychiatric Association congress in Florence suggests differences in the brain activity of PTSD sufferers. Over 40 US soldiers who had served in Iraq or Afghanistan were tested - about half of whom had a diagnosis of PTSD. Their brains were examined with an MRI scanner as they performed memory tests.
Tories join campaign to help traumatised troops
(The Independent 19/03/2009)
Urgent action must be taken to tackle the growing problem of troops with mental trauma, said the Shadow Defence Secretary as the Conservative Party joined the coalition campaigning for better care for the armed forces. "The mental health problem will become a mental health crisis," warned Dr Liam Fox yesterday, because, he said, the armed forces were trying to maintain an operational tempo in Afghan-istan and Iraq for which they were under-manned and ill-resourced.
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