WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs is on a pace to see nearly 20,000 new cases of post-combat stress this year among service members who’ve served in Iraq or Afghanistan, more than six times the number of cases that officials had expected.

The latest report on patient visits to VA medical facilities shows that nearly 5,000 service members were initially diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder during the first three months of this year, on top of nearly 5,000 new diagnoses that the VA had reported for the last three months of 2005.
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If such a huge percentage suffer from this ‘disorder’ in what sense can it be understood as a disorder? It is a RESPONSE to an environment the human nervous system cannot tolerate. A bonanza for big Pharma too.

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