US diplomts return from Iraq with PTSD
May 3rd, 2007
Yet another group is suffering from exposure to the toxic environment that is Iraq post-occupation:
U.S. diplomats returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder
U.S. diplomats are returning from Iraq with the same debilitating, stress-related symptoms that have afflicted many U.S. troops, prompting the State Department to order a mental health survey of 1,400 employees who have completed assignments there.
Larry Brown, the State Department’s director of medical services, said that as early as this month the department will e-mail questionnaires to employees who have been posted in Iraq.
Most diplomats spend little time outside the (relatively) safe Green Zone. If life in the Green Zone for a brief while leads to PTSD, it is virtually impossible to even imagine the mental health status of Iraqis, with no escape from worry, fear, and chaos.
Entry Filed under: Iraq, Psychology, Public Health
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1. Mike | May 3rd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I doubt if they are as stressed as the people who live in Iraq. Here’s Terry McCarthy of ABC News, Baghdad on the pollution, not the only kind, of sectarianism introduced by the ‘liberators’.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/16886/1/Shredded-society.wmv/
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