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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (113448)8/4/2010 12:04:20 AM
From: Hawkmoon4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 116555
 
What it barely considers is the suicide-inked antidepressants, antipsychotics and antiseizure drugs whose use exactly parallels the increase in US troop suicides since 2005.

Now there is something fact based, and I would concur..

SSRIs are a known threat to mental health if the patient terminates their use without properly "coming down" from them.

My mother went on Paxil after my father's death and I constantly warn her against her stopping them without a doctor's knowledge.

Btw, most of these drugs were not available to previous veterans who saw combat, and the overwhelming majority did not require them.

But there is always a percentage of individuals who will suffer extreme mental trauma and they require treatment and counseling, not just drugs.

Here's another "factoid".. most of the GIs who came back from WWII returned on ships, involving weeks at sea, and constant conversation with their fellow veterans. However, nowadays the average GI returns to "the world" within hours via a jet aircraft and is thrust back into "normality" without a proper period of mutual decompression and rapport with their fellow soldiers.

I know from personal experience that it was almost surreal when I touched down at Dulles airport only 22 hours after leaving Iraq.

Hawk
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